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Doc.  No.  47.] 


[Sks.  lS58-'9. 


Ordered  to  ~be  Printed. 


Holden  &  Wilson,  Printers  to  the  State. 


FINANCIAL  REPORT  OF  THE  WESTERN  NORTH- 
CAROLINA  RAILROAD  COMPANY,  FROM  OCTO- 
BER 5th,  1855,  TO  DECEMBER  1st,  1858. 


To  the  Honorable,  the  General  Assembly 

of  the  State  of  North  Carolina : 

I  have  the  honor  to  transmit  herewith,  a  report  from  the 
Western  North  Carolina  Railroad  Company,  made  to  me  in 
compliance  with  a  provision  in  the  charter  of  the  Company 
requiring  such  reports  to  be  annually  made,  in  the  first  week 
in  December,  to  the  Governor  of  the  State. 

A  report  was  also  made  in  the  month  of  December,  1857, 
but  as  the  report  herewith  sent  embraces  all  the  operations  of 
the  company  from  its  organization  to  the  present  time,  and 
therefore  embraces  the  matter  contained  in  the  last  report,  I 
deem  it  unnecessary  to  lay  the  same  before  you,  unless  it 
should  be  desired  by  your  honorable  body. 

THO:  BRAGG. 

Executive  Depaktment,  Dec.  7th,  1858. 


SI 


Document  No.  47. 


[Session 


REPORT  OF  THE  PRESIDENT. 

Office  Western  North-Carolina  Railroad  Company, 
Statesville,  December  3,  1858. 

\ 
To  his  Excellency  Gov.  Bragg : 

I  have  the  honor,  in  conformity  with  the  48th  section  of 
the  act  of  Assembly  incorporating  the  Western  North-Caro- 
lina Railroad  Company,  to  submit  herewith  a  statement  of 
the  receipts  and  expenditures  of  said  company,  to  be  trans- 
mitted by  you  to  the  present  General  Assembly  ;  and,  by  di- 
rection of  the  Board  of  directors,  have  enlarged  the  required 
statement  so  as  to  embrace  the  entire  financial  transactions  of 
the  company  from  its  organization  to  this  time. 

RECEIPTS. 


From  individual  stockholders  : 
From  Oct'r  5,  1855,  to  Jul}'  1,  1856, 
From  July  1,  1850,  to  July  1,  1857, 
From  July  1,  1857,  to  Jul'v  1,  1S58, 
From  July  1, 1858,  to  Dec'r  1,  1858. 
Total  amount  from  individual  stock- 
holders, 

From  State  of  North-Carolina, 
on   account  of  her  subscrip- 
tion, to  fmt  section : 
October  1st,  1856,  received, 
July  1st,  1857,  received, 
January  1st,  1858,  received, 
April  1st,  1858,  received,. 
July  1st,  1858,  received, 
October  1st,  1858,  received, 
Total  amount  received  from  State, 
Interest  received  and  premium 
for  exchange  sold  : 
Fn.m  Oct'r  5,  1855,  to  July  1,  1857, 
From  July  1,  1857,  to  July  1,  1858, 
From  July  1, 1858,  to  Dec'r  1,  1858, 
Total  receipts  for  interest,  premium 
and  exehange, 

Total  amount  of  receipts, 


20,000 
130,535 

128,528 
2S,621 


200,000 
106,000 
100,000 

50,000 
100,000 

50,000 


4,002:00 

2,222!51 

9391 


$  307,685 


81 


600,000 


6,318 

1 


ov 


42 


$914,004  23 


185S-'9.] 


Document  ISTo.  47. 
DISBURSEMENTS. 


Miscellaneous  accounts  : 
From  Oct'r  5,  1855,  to  July  1,  1856, 
From  July  1,  1S56,  to  July  1,  1857, 
From  July  1,  1857,  to  July  1,  1858, 
From  July  1, 1858,  to  Dec'r  1,  1858, 
For   items,    see   Abstract   herewith 

marked  No.  1, 

Printing  Account : 
From  Oct'r  5,  1855,  to  July  1,  1856, 
From  July  1,  1856,  to  July  1,  1857, 
From  July  1, 1857,  to  July  1,  1858, 
From  July  1, 1858,  to  Dec'r  1,  1S58, 
For   items,    see   Abstract   herewith 

marked  No  2, 

Stationery  and  Office  account : 
From  Oct'r  5,'  1855,  to  July  1,  1856, 
From  July  1,  1S56,  to  July  1,  1857, 
From  July  1,  1857,  to  July  1,  1858, 
From  July  1,  185S,  to  Dec'r  1,  1858 
For   items,   see   Abstract   herewith 

marked  No.  3, 

Mileage  of  directors : 
From  Oct'r  5,  1855,  to  July  1,  1856, 
From  July  1,  1856,  to  July  1,  1S57, 
From  July  1,  1857,  to  July  1,  1858, 
From  July  1,  1858,  to  Dec'r  1,  1858, 
For   items,    see    Abstract  herewith 

marked  No.  4, 

Engineering  account : 
From  Oct'r  5,  1855,  to  July  1,  1856, 
From  July  1,  1856,  to  July  1,  1S57, 
From  July  1,  1857,  to  July  1,  1858, 
From  July  1,  1858,  to  Dec'r  1, 1858, 
For   items,   see   Abstract   herewith 

marked  No.  5, 

Salaries  for  Presid't  &  Treasur'r : 
From  Oct'r  5,  1855,  to  July  1,  1856 
From  July  1,  1856,  to  July  1,  1857, 
From  July  1,  1857,  to  July  1,  1858, 
Grading  acct.  from   5th  Oct.,  1855, 

to  1st  July,  1857, 
Grading  acct.  from  1st  July,  1857,  to 


19  50 
10  00 
90  68 


12 


71 

156 

56 

21 


90 
169 
149 

20 


273 
266 


50 


167  90 
133  80 


12,000 
13,700 
14,907 

1,825 


2,205 
3,000 
3,000 

$  123,412 


132 


68 


306 


37 


430 


40 


842 


05 


42,432 


8,205 


95 


00 


Document  No.  47. 


[Session 


1st  July,  1858, 
Grading  acct.  from  1st  July,  1858$  to 

1st  Dec'r,  1858, 
For   items,    see    Abstract   herewith 

marked  No.  6, 
Masonry  from  5th  Oct.,  1855,  to  1st 

July,  1857, 
Masonry  from  1st  July,  1857,   to  1st 

July,"  1S58, 
Masonry  from  1st  July,  185S,    to  1st 

Dec'r,  1858, 
For   items,   see   Abstract    herewith 

marked  No.  7, 
Iron,   Chairs  and   Spikes  from    5th 

Oct.,  1855,  to  1st  July,  1857, 
Iron,  Chairs  and  Spikes  from  1st  July 

1857,  to  July,  1858, 

Iron,  Chairs  and  Spikes  from  1st  July 

1858,  to  1st  Dec'r,  1858, 

For   items,    see   Abstract   herewith 

marked  No.  8, 
Sills  acct.  from  5th  Oct.,  1855,  to  1st 

July,  1857, 
Sills  acct.  from  1st  July,  1857,  to  1st 

July,  1858, 
Sills  acct.  from  1st  July,  1858,  to  1st 

Dec'r,  1858, 
For   items,   see   Abstract   herewith 

marked  No.  9, 
Eight  of  Way  and  Eeal  Estate  from 

5th  Oct.,  1855,  to  1st  July,  1857, 
Eight  of  Way  and  Eeal  Estate  from 

1st  July,  1857,  to  1st  July,  1858, 
Eight  of  Way  and  Eeal  Estate  from 

1st  July,  1858,  to  1st  Dec'r,  1858, 
To  whom  paid,  see  Abstract  here- 
with marked  No.  10, 
Lime  and    Cement   acct.  from    5th 

Oct.,  1855,  to  1st  July,  1857, 
Lime  and  Cement  acct.  from  1st  July, 

1857,  to  1st  July,  1858, 

Lime  and  Cement  acct.  from  1st  July, 

1858,  to  1st  Dec'r,  1858, 

To  whom  paid,  see  Abstract  herewith 
marked  No.  11, 


$  190,283 
I 

39,02T 

39,799 
54,205 

14,175 


43,145 
79,652 
63,001 

6,943 

22,044 


10 
96 

17 

44 
06 

41 

44 
25 

00 

92 


1,497  71 


2,675 
6,458 

857 

2,445 
2,584 
1,587 


6  352,723  93 


108,179 


185,799 


30,485 


9,990 


6,617 


67 


10 


63 


90 


06 


1858-'9.] 


Document  No.  47. 


Car  and  Engine  acct.  from  5th  Oct., 

1855,  to  1st  July,  1857, 

$      8,7S3 

50 

Car  and  Engine  acct.  from  1st  July, 

1857,  to  1st  July,  1858, 

17,796 

29 

Car  and  Engine  acct.  from  1st  July, 

1858,  to  1st  Dee'r,  1858, 

7,435 

10 

To  whom  paid,  see  Abstract  herewith 

marked  No  12, 

$    34,014 

89 

Freight  acct.  from  5th  Oct.,  1855,  to 

1st  July,  1857, 

488 

17 

Freight  acct.  from  1st  July,  1857,  to 

1st  July,  1858, 

2,222 

25 

For   items,   see    Abstract  herewith 

marked  No.  13, 

2,710 

72 

Int.,  Disc't  and  Exchange  from  5th 

Oct.,  1855,  to  1st  July,  1857, 

1,609 

73 

Int.,  Disc't  and  Exchange  from  1st 

July,  1857,  to  1st  July,  1858, 

27,812 

85 

Int.,  Disc't  and  Exchange  from  1st 

July,  1858,  to  1st  Dec'r,  1858, 

4,051 

01 

For   items,    see   Abstract   herewith 

marked  No.  14, 

33,473 

69 

Depot  and   Station    acct  from    5th 

Oct.,  1855,  to  1st  July,  1858, 

12,959 

00 

Dep't  and  Station  acct.  from  1st  July, 

1858,  to  1st  Dec'r,  1858, 

11,292 

98 

For   items,   see   Abstract   herewith 

marked  No.  15, 

24,251 

98 

Construction    acct.   from    5th   Oct., 

1855,  to  1st  July,  1858, 

4,539 

39 

Construction    acct.    from    1st   July, 

1858,  to  1st  Dec'r,  1858, 

9,903 

79 

For  items,  see  Abstract  marked  No. 

16, 

14,443 

18 

Bridge  Suptr.  acct.   from   5th  Oct., 

1855,  to  1st  July,  1858, 

2,715 

91 

Bridge   Suptr.   acct.   from   1st  July, 

1858,  to  1st  Dec'r,  185S, 

1,823 

50 

For   items,    see    Abstract   herewith 

marked  No.  17, 

4,539 

41 

Total  ain't  expen'ure  to  1st  Dec.  1858, 

$859,579 

01 

DocuitiEsrT  ]STo.  47. 


[Session 


Balance  remaining  in  the  Treasury 
1st  Dec'r,  1858, 

To  balance  bro't  clown  due  W.  K".  C. 
^  R.  E.  Co., 

Consisting  of  the    following  items : 
IN".  C.  State  Bonds, 
In  Br.  Bank,  Morganton, 
Cash  in  Treasury, 


8    54,42J 


8  914,004 
$  54,424 

|    54,424 


R9 


23 
62 

62 


All  warrants  drawn  on  the  Treasury  have  been  presented 
and  paid,  but  there  are  outstanding  claims  against  the  Com- 
pany, recently  contracted,  which  have  not  yet  been  paid,  and 
as  nearly  as  we  can  state,  may  be  estimated  in  round  num- 
bers at  some  fifty  thousand  dollars,  to  wit: 


For  Engines  and  Cars,  say 
"     Freight  on  Railroad  Iron, 
"     Chairs  and  Spikes, 
"     Lime  and  Cement, 
"     Turn  Table  and  Scales, 
"     Sundry  other  accounts, 


22,000,00 
8,000i00 
6,000100 

650100 

2,700jo0 
10,650100 


$    50,000i00 


It  may  be  proper  to  say  that  there  is  due  the  Treasury  of 
this  Company  some  four  hundred  dollars  or  upwards  for  sale 
of  mules  and  wagon,  which  has  not  yet  been  collected. 

The  report  which  our  charter  requires  the  President  and 
Directors  to  submit  to  you  annually,  might  be  considered  as 
complete  upon  the  submission  of  the  foregoing  statement ;  if 
the  great  work  which  we  are  now  prosecuting,  was  completed 
and  in  full  operation,  such  a  report  relating  only  to  the  finan- 
cial condition  and  pecuniary  operations  of  the  company,  would 
fulfil  the  letter  of  the  charter,  and  meet  the  expectations  of  the 
General  Assembly.  But  the  road  is  merely  in  progress  of 
construction,  and  the  Board  have  considered  it  proper  to  take 
a  wider  field,  and  have  instructed  me  whilst  communicating 


1858-'9.]  Document  No.  47.  7 

the  actual  progress  made  in  the  work  since  the  last  annual 
report,  to  suggest  the  removal  of  certain  restrictions  now  im- 
posed by  the  charter,  which  must  greatly  retard  the  completion 
of  the  road,  if  not  removed  by  some  legislative  action. 

The  charter  fixes  the  western  terminus  of  the  road  at  the 
French  Broad  river,  and  the  surveys  locate  it  at  a  point  on 
that  river  near  Asheville.  The  amendment  suggested  in  our 
report  at  the  session  of  1856— '57.  with  a  view  to  facilitate  the 
work,  did  not  embrace  any  proposition  for  the  extension  of  the 
road  at  that  time,  because  the  Board  were  not  then  as  fully 
assured  as  they  have  since  become,  that  the  people  along  the 
projected  line,  in  the  State  of  Tennessee,  would  be  prepared 
to  meet  us  at  the  State  line,  with  a  road  in  such  a  condition 
of  forwardness  as  to  prevent  the  possibility  of  delay  at  the 
point  of  junction.  All  difficulty  or  danger  of  delay  on  this 
subject  is  now  removed.  A  company  has  been  organized 
with  means  at  their  command  to  build  a  Railroad  from  Mor- 
ristown,  on  the  East  Tennessee  and  Virginia  Railroad,  to  our 
State  line,  and  have  commenced  operations,  and  are  awaiting 
with  much  anxiety  some  action  by  our  Legislature  which  will 
insure  them  a  connection  at  an  early  day  with  the  Railways 
of  our  State. 

The  State  has  reserved  the  right  expressly  to  extend  our 
road  westwardly  to  such  point  as  the  Legislature  may  deter- 
mine, contemplating  the  ultimate  extension  of  the  main  trunk 
through  the  entire  length  of  the  State,  with  a  branch  road 
down  the  French  Broad  river,  or,  at  all  events,  an  extension 
to  some  point  on  the  Tennessee  line.  The  extension  down 
the  French  Broad  river,  either  with  the  main  trunk  or  by  a 
branch  road,  should  be  determined  upon  immediately  or  some 
assurance  given  of  its  consummation  at  no  distant  day.  The 
company  which  is  now  organized  with  a  view  to  forming  a 
connection  with  our  road,  has  a  guarantee  of  aid  from  the 
State  of  Tennessee,  to  the  extent  often  thousand  dollars  per 
mile,  provided  their  road  is  graded  within  a  limited  time,  and 
the  expiration  of  that  period  (occasioned  by  the  want  of  assur- 
ances from  our  State  which  I  have  named,)  before  the  stipu- 
lated work  is  done  by  that  company,  might  postpone  to  an 


8  Document  Kb.  47.  [Session 

indefinite  period,  the  railway  connection  upon  which  the  suc- 
cess of  our  whole  system  of  improvements  depends. 

The  restrictions,  to  which  reference  has  been  made,  grow 
out  of  the  section  feature  in  our  charter.  The  Board  did  not 
suggest,  in  our  report,  to  the  last  Legislature,  the  entire  ab- 
rogation of  that  feature,  but  only  a  modification  of  it.  The 
question  of  the  entire  removal  of  the  restrictions  is  left  to  the 
wisdom  of  the  General  Assembly.  The  modification  hereto- 
fore proposed  and  now  urged  as  of  vital  importance,  is  that 
so  soon  as  the  individual  stock  shall  be  subscribed  for  the  re- 
spective sections,  and  the  jive  per  cent,  thereon  paid,  and  the 
State  has  become  a  subscriber  for  her  share  of  stock,  that 
thereupon  books  may  be  opened  for  the  the  succeeding  sec- 
tions, and  as  soon  as  the  State  shall  have  become  a  subscriber 
in  the  manner  directed  by  the  charter,  that  books  may  be 
opened  for  subscription  of  stock  for  building  another  section, 
and  so  on,  seriatim,  until  the  road  is  completed — thus  abro- 
gating the  provision  which  requires  the  first  section  and  each 
succeeding  one  to  be  completed  and  fully  equipped  before 
books  can  opened  and  operations  commenced  on  any  other. 

By  permitting  the  Company,  in  addition  to  the  foregoing 
amendments,  'to  open  books  for  constructing  the  extreme 
western  section,  with  authority  to  commence  operations  at 
Paint  Rock,  on  the  Tennessee  line,  as  soon  as  one-third  of  the 
estimated  cost  to  Asheville  should  be  subscribed  by  individ- 
uals, and  two-thirds  by  the  State,  and  building  the  sections 
from  both  termini  towards  the  centre,  the  road  could  be  con- 
structed with  very  nearly  or  quite  as  much  dispatch  as  if  all 
restrictions  whatever  were  removed  and  the  whole  line  from 
Morganton  thrown  open. 

The  amendments  proposed  by  the  last  General  Assembly  to 
the  charter  of  the  Company,  were  accepted  by  the  stockhold- 
ers, and  the  portion  of  the  line  of  road  added  to  the  first  sec- 
tion by  the  amended  charter,  was  surveyed,  and  the  cost 
thereof  est'mated,  the  estimated  cost  is  six  hundred  and  sixty 
thousand  dollars,  and  upon  books  being  opened,  one-third  of 
that  sum,  $220,000  was  subscribed  by  solvent  persons  and  by 
counties,  and  five  per  cent,  thereon  paid,  and  the  State  then 
became  a  subscriber  for  the  remaining  two-thirds. 


1858-'9.]  Document  No.  47.  9 

The  building  of  this  part  of  the  line  was  pnt  under  contract 
immediately  thereafter,  and  operations  in  grading  and  mason- 
ry began  at  once,  and  are  now  prosecuted  with  energy. 

The  original  charter  of  this  company,  authorised  any  county 
through  which  the  road  passes,  to  subscribe  any  amount  of 
the  capital  or  joint  stock,  as  a  majority  of  the  voters  of  such 
county  may  approve,  directing  the  county  courts  to  hold  an 
election  for  that  purpose  at  the  usual  times  and'  places  of 
voting  for  members  of  the  General  Assembly.  This  section  as 
it  originally  stood,  was  impracticable,  because  there  was  no 
mode  of  fixing  upon  any  given  sum  so  as  to  present  a  single 
proposition  upon  which  there  could  be  an  affirmative  and  a 
negative  vote;  on  this  account,  and  beoanse  there  was  a  fixed 
time  when  such  elections  were  to  be  held,  and  at  no  other, 
the  Legislature,  at  the  last  session,  amended  it  by  empower- 
ing the  justices  in  each  county  to  determine  the  amount  to  be 
subscribed  at  any  one  time,  and  authorised  them  to  fix  also 
upon  the  time  when  an  election  for  that  purpose  should  be 
held.  Under  these  provisions  of  the  charter  the  county  of 
Burke  made  a  subscription  of  500  shares  of  $100  each,  equal 
to  $50,000,  to  the  capital  stock  of  the  company,  as  authorised 
to  be  subscribed  by  the  amended  charter,  after  the  sum  had 
been  duly  determined  upon  by  a  majority  of  the  justices,  and 
a  majority  of  the  voters  had  approved  the  same  at  the  polls. 
This  subscription  was  regarded  by  the  Board  as  good  and 
effectual,  and  upon  the  faith  of  that  and  the  other  subscription 
which  made  up  the  aggregate  of  stock  required,  a  contract 
was  made  for  building  the  road  to  Morganton.  Subsequent 
to  the  making  of  this  contract,  certain  persons  who  considered 
themselves  aggrieved  by  the  subscription  on  the  part  of  Burke 
county,  filed  a  bill  in  Equity  to  restrain  the  justices  of  said 
county  from  providing  the  ways  and  means  to  pay  the  same, 
and  alledging  that  a  proposition  for  a  subscription  of  $100,000 
had  been  submitted  to  the  voters  of  the  county,  and  was  re- 
jected before  the  late  submission  of  the  question,  and  that  the 
power  of  the  county  to  subscribe  for  them  was  exhausted 
thereby. 

It  was  manifestly  the  intention  of  the  Legislature,  (whatev- 


10  Document  No.  47-  [Session 

er  may  be  the  strict  legal  construction  of  that  provision  of  the 
charter,)  to  authorise  the  several  counties  through  which  the 
road  passes,  to  aid  in  its  construction  by  subscribing  as  much 
and  as  many  different  sums  as  the  voters  thereof  might  desire, 
in  order  to  secure  the  benefits  of  the  road ;  and  we  therefore 
venture  to  suggest,  that  all  difficulty  on  this  subject  might  be 
removed  by  the  passage,  at  this  session,  of  an  act  of  Assembly 
declaring  the  original  intention  of  the  Legislature  in  the  pre- 
mises, and  confirming  and  making  good  and  effectual  the  ac- 
tion of  the  justices  and  the  vote  of  the  people  of  Burke  county 
upon  the  subscription  now  in  question.  The  vote  was  a  very 
full  one,  and  a  majority  of  the  voters  of  the  county  were  un- 
questionably in  favor  of  the  proposition. 

If  the  Legislature  can  interpose  in  the  manner  suggested, 
and  impose  this  burden  where  it  properly  belongs,  then  the 
question  presented  is,  whether  the  General  Assembly  will  al- 
low the  county  of  Burke  a  chance  to  evade  the  payment  of  a 
debt  which  a  majority  of  her  people  are  willing  to  pay,  and 
risk  a  loss  of  that  sum  by  a  corporation  in  which  the  State  is 
the  largest  stockholder. 

Since  the  meeting  of  the  last  General  Assembly,  the  line  of 
the  road  from  the  Catawba  River  to  a  point  near  "  Hale's," 
at  the  western  terminus  of  the  first  section,  as  located  under 
the  original  charter,  was  let  to  contractors,  and  the  grading 
and  masonry  thereon  are  rapidly  approaching  completion. 
The  iron  has  been  laid  from  Salisbury  to  Statesville,  and  the 
road  equipped  and  in  full  operation  to  that  point ;  our  cars  are 
conveying  the  U.  S.  Mails  under  a  contract  with  the  P.  O. 
Department,  and  run  daily  in  connection  with  the  mail  trains 
on  the  3S".  C.  Eoad. 

Iron  has  been  purchased  and  will  soon  be  received,  suffi- 
cient to  lay  the  track  to  a  point  within  23  miles  of  Morgan  ton, 
and  the  track  laying  will  be  resumed  whenever  the  weather 
and  condition  of  the  road  bed  will  justify  it, 

I  am  gratified  in  being  enabled  to  reiterate  what  was  stated 
in  the  brief  report  submitted  to  you  some  weeks  ago,  that  the 
cost  of  the  road  as  far  as  the  same  has  been  completed,  has  not 
exceeded  the  estimates   laid  before  you  two  years  ago.     The 


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same  scale  of  prices  lias  been  preserved  throughout  the  entire 
route  surveyed  to  the  Tennessee  line,  and  the  Board  entertain 
the  opinion,  founded  upon  data  which  maybe  confidently  re- 
lied upon,  that  the  actual  cost  of  the  whole  road  when  exten- 
ded to  Paint  Bock,  at  the  State  line,  will  fall  short  of  the  sum 
originally  estimated  for  building  the  road  to  French  Broad 
river,  and  can  in  no  event  exceed  it.  The  mountain  section, 
for  instance,  which  seems  to  constitute  the  great  stumbling 
block  in  the  way  of  legislation  for  facilitating  the  progress  of 
the  work,  as  well  all  the  simple  cuts  as  in  the  turn-outs,  is  es- 
timated at  the  rates  allowed  for  solid  rock,  with  the  usual  al- 
lowance for  contingencies  in  addition. 

The  people  of  the  State  long  since  acquiesced  in  the  legis- 
lation which  appropriated  four  millions  of  dollars  from  the 
Public  Treasury  to  aid  in  building  this  road  to  the  French 
Broad  river,  and  were  no  doubt  prepared  to  support,  at  some 
future  time,  further  appropriations  for  its  extension.  The 
great  and  primary  object  of  the  appropriation,  originally,  was 
to  form  a  connection  by  railway  with  railroads  and  navigable 
rivers  in  the  valley  of  the  Mississippi ;  and  when  this  end  can 
be  attained  for  the  present  by  diverting  a  branch  road  down 
the  French  Broad  river,  a  distance  of  45  miles,  without  in- 
creasing the  appropriation  already  made  a  single  dollar,  will 
the  General  Assembly  hesitate  to  hasten  the  attainment  of 
that  object  by  amending  our  charter  in  the  manner  proposed  ? 

Urgent  solicitations  have  been  made  to  this  company  by 
the  citizens  of  Haywood,  Jackson,  Macon  and  Cherokee  coun- 
ties for  a  survey  from  the  French  Broad  river,  through  those 
counties,  to  the  Tennessee  line,  in  the  direction  of  Ducktown. 
Having  no  authority  to  extend  our  surveys  beyond  the  western 
terminus  of  our  road,  as  fixed  by  the  charter,  we  were  com- 
pelled, reluctantly  but  respectfully,  to  decline  their  request. 
If  the  General  Assembly,  in  its  wisdom,  should  make  suitable 
provision  for  having  the  survey  made,  and  direct  that  this 
Board  organize  a  corps  of  Engineers  for  that  purpose,  the  duty 
will  be  cheerfully  undertaken  and  faithfully  discharged. 

A  survey  has  been  made  of  the  second  section,  and  an  ac- 
tual location  of  the  line  fixed  upon,  and  the  cost  thereof  is  es- 


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timatecl  as  directed  in  our  amended  charter.  The  particulars 
connected  therewith  will  be  found  fully  set  forth  in  the  ac- 
companying report  of  our  Chief  Engineer,  to  which  we  beg 
leave  to  refer. 

The  repor's  of  the  President  and  Board  of  Directors,  to- 
gether with  the  reports  of  the  other  officers  of  the  company 
to  the  stockholders  at  their  third  and  fourth  annual  meetings, 
are  hereunto  appended,  and  reference  may  be  had  to  those 
documents  for  further  particulars  relating  to  the  progress  and 
management  of  the  road. 

I  have  the  honor  to  be,  very  respectfully, 

Your  obedient  servant, 

ft.  C.  PEARSON, 
President, 


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EEPOKT  OF  THE   CHIEF   ENGINEER. 

Office  Western  North-Carolina  R.  R. 

Salisbury,  December,  1858. 

To  the  President  and  Directors  of  the 

Western  North- Carolina  Railroad  Company  : 

Gentlemen  :  The  second  section  of  the  "Western  North- 
Carolina  Railroad  has  been  located,  and  as  required  bj  the 
amended  charter  extends  from  the  town  of  Morgan  ton  to  a 
point  near  the  eastern  base  of  the  Blue  Ridge,  ten  miles  east 
of  the  western  portal  of  the  Swanannoa  Tunnel,  by  the  short- 
est line,  a  distance  of  33.5  miles.  As  the  amended  charter  re- 
quired a  determination  of  this  point,  you  will  perceive  it  was 
obviously  incumbent  on  us  to  locate  the  mountain  section  of 
the  Road  in  order  to  determine  the  western  terminus  of  the 
second  section  of  the  Road.  To  this  mountain  section  I  shall 
refer  more  particularly  in  a  subsequent  part  of  this  report. 

The  corps  of  Engineers,  under  the  immediate  direction  of 
R.  C.  McCalla,  detailed  for  this  particular  duty,  has  been  as- 
siduously and  diligently  engaged  for  months  past,  in 
an  examination  and  location  of  the  most  direct  practicable 
lines  between  Morgan  ton,  or  the  western  terminus  of  the  first 
section,  and  the  base  of  the  Blue  Ridge  on  the  valley  of  the 
Catawba. 

In  pursuance  of  the  examination  of  the  country  heretofore 
made  by  myself  as  Principal  Assistant  Engineer,  under  Cob 
Gwynn,  and  subsequently  as  Chief  Engineer  of  this  Road,  I 
do  not  hesitate  to  say  that  we  now  have  the  lines  near  the 
best  practicable  ground  for  the  Road.  But  after  causing  a 
thorough  examination  to  be  made,  it  has  been  found  neces- 
sary to  an  impartial  determination  of  the  question,  to  locate, 
for  the  greater  part  of  the  way,  two  distinct  lines,  one  of 
which  we  shall  designate  as  the  river  line,  and  the  other  as 
the  ridge  or  Marion  line.     The  river  and  ridge  lines  are  com- 


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raon  for  9.63  miles  to  a  point  near  tlie  mouth  of  Muddy  creek, 
when  the  one  seeks  its  way  up  the  valley  of  the  meandering 
Catawba,  whilst  the  other,  after  crossing  Muddy  creek,  near 
its  month,  continues  on  the  south  side  of  the  Catawba  toShad- 
naeli's  Creek;  thence  along  the  slopes  of  Shadnach's  creek  to 
the  summit,  dividing  it  from  Still  House  branch  ;  thence  down 
Still  House  branch,  Thompson's  fork  of  Muddy  creek,  near 
Polly  Duncan's;  thence  along  its  slopes  to  the  summit,  se- 
parating it  from  the  tributaries  of  Forsyth  creek,  but  in  a 
very  direct  line  to  the  town  of  Marion,  in  McDowell  county; 
thence  through  Burnt  Cabin  Gap  to  Little  Nick's  creek,  and 
down  it  to  its  junction  with  Big  Kick's  creek,  which  two 
creeks  approach  each  other  from  opposite  points  of  the  com- 
pass; thence  up  Big  ^Tick's  creek  about  2000  feet,  and  then 
the  line  is  continued  in  a  very  direct  course  to  the  valley  of 
the  Catawba,  which  it  enters  opposite  to  the  mouth  of  Clear 
creek  and  occupies  for  two  miles,  where  it,  for  the  first  time 
on  this  section,  crosses  the  Catawba  river,  about  1,500  feet 
above  the  mouth  of  Cain  creek,  and  soon  after  unites  with  the 
river  line.  Cain  creek  empties  into  the  Catawba  from  the 
north,  but  running  in  an  eastward!;/  direction  ;  up  this  stream 
the  line  is  located,  cutting  through  the  summit  at  its  head, 
and  again  descends  to  the  valley  of  the  Catawba,  thus  main- 
taining a  more  direct  westwardly  course,  and  cutting  off  the 
bends  of  the  river;  our  descent  to  the  river  valley  is  near 
Newberry's  fork,  which  is  crossed  by  a  viaduct. ;  thence  up 
the  river  passing  Gen.  Burgin's  to  "Old  Fort,"  crossing  and 
re-crossing  Mill  creek  ro  the  end  of  the  second  section,  which 
is  one  mile  above  "  Old  Fort,"  By  this  line  we  have  seven- 
teen mechanical  structures,  of  which  eleven  are  arch  cul- 
verts, two  are  girder  bridges,  and  four  stone  viaducts,  to 
wit:  one  over  Silver  creek,  consisting  of  two  arched  spans  of 
fifty  feet  each  ;  one  of  two  spans,  fifty  feet  each,  thirty  feet 
high,  over  Muddy  creek;  one  of  two  spans  of  sixty  feet  each, 
over  the  Catawba  river,  twenty-six  feet  above  the  surface  of 
the  water;  and  the  fourth  over  dewberry's  fork,  having  a  sin- 
gle span  of  sixty  feet,  and  only  eighteen  feet  above  the  sur- 
face of  the  water.     But  the  accompanying  table  of  mechani- 


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al  structures  more  particularly  designates  their  localities, 
spans,  elevations,  character,  and  quantities  of  masonry  ;  and 
by  this  table  it  will  further  be  seen  that  we  contemplate  cross- 
ing all  the  streams  either  with  stone  viaducts  or  arch  culverts, 
thus  securing  the  most  permanent,  roadway.  Whilst  on  the 
river  line,  stone  abutments,  with  wood  superstructure  only, 
has  been  estimated  for.  The  general  course  of  this  line,  with 
one  exception  near  Marion,  is  very  direct  and  even  :  this  may 
be  obviated,  and  thus  shorten  the  line  some  4,000  feet  by  the 
construction  of  a  short  tunnel.  The  grade  is  undulating,  but 
does  not  exceed  sixty-three  feet  per  mile  ;  whilst  the  curva- 
ture, except  for  a  short  distance  at  the  mouth  of  both  Muddy 
and  Shadrach's  creek,  nowhere  exceeds  our  minimum  radius 
of  1,432  feet.  The  second  section  thus  located,  is  33.52  miles 
in  length.  Tiie  river  and  ridge  lines  being  common  to  a  point 
near  the  mouth  of  Muddj*  creek,  leave?  Morganton  and  cros- 
ses the  Rutherfordton  road,  about  one  mile  south  of  the  town, 
and  then  descends  to  the  valley  of  Silver  creek,  crossing  it 
near  Col.  William  Walton's,  and  then  up  to  the  vicinity  of  the 
stage  road  to  Ashville,  and  continues  on  the  ridge  to  the  six 
mile  post,  then  diverges  to  the  v'\g\'A,  and  passing  a  series  of 
three  deep  cuts,  it  descends  to  the  valley  of  the  Catawba, 
crossing  Reedy's  branch  on  the  way,  forty  feet  above  its  sur- 
face; the  river  line  then  crosses  the  Catawba  by  a  bridge  375 
feet  in  length  ;  the  valley  of  the  river  is,  with  slight  depar- 
tures, followed  with  all  itsmeanderings  to  where  the  two  lines 
are  again  common,  near  the  mouth  of  Cain  creek,  the  river 
line  passing  in  its  course  to  this  point,  fifteen  arch  culverts 
and  bridges;  but  having  in  its  whole  length  twenty  mechani- 
cal structures  of  this  kind,  requires  5,555  cubic  yards  of  aside 
masonry  and  558  cubic  yards  of  arch  masonry,  and  600  feet 
lineal  of  wooden  bridge  superstructure;  but  reference  to  the 
tabular  statements  accompanyiug  this  report  will  give  more 
satisfactory  information  in  regard  to  these  structures.  The 
river  line  is  37.30  miles  in  length,  and  consequently  3.89  miles 
longer  than  the  ridge  line,  but  has  15.46  miles  common  to 
each.  The  grades  on  the  river  line  proper  are  more  easy  and 
desirable  than  those  on  the  ridge  line  ;  but  the  curvature  is 


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of  much  less  radius,  and  is  often  indispensable  in  fitting  the 
line  around  the  rock-bound  sides  of  the  bends  of  the  river. 
Thus  it  appears  that  I  can  present  for  your  adoption  a  choice 
of  lines;  and  although  the  river  line  is  3.8  miles  longer  than 
the  ridge  line,  yet  the  cost  of  the  two  lines,  as  appears  from 
the  accompanying  estimate,  which  has  been  prepared  with 
much  care,  differs  only  $7,443 — a  difference  which,  in  a  work 
of  such  magnitude,  is  merely  nominal.  The  following  is  an 
estimate  of  the  ridge  line  : 

Gradation  and  masonry,  $472,045.81 

Ten  per  cent,  on  contingencies,  47,204.58 

Iron  chains  and  spikes,  228,166.78 

Laying  of  superstructure,  17,330.00 

Sills,    '  30,500.00 

Engineering  and  superintendence,  33,520.00 

Land  damages,  5,000.00 
Proportion  of  the  equipment  for  33.5  miles  of 
the  road,  including  wells,  wood,  and  water 

stations,  warehouses  and  repair  shops,  78,721.43 


Total  cost  of  second  section,  ^912,488.60 

The  second  section  of  the  Western  North-Carolina  Rail- 
road being  in  readiness  for  the  contractor,  let  stock  books  be 
opened  for  a  subscription  of  one  third  of  the  estimated  cost 
in  accordance  with  the  terms  of  the  amended  charter,  and  the 
day  is  not  far  distant  when  the  reverberation  of  the  shrill 
wdiistle  of  the  locomotive  will  not  only  gladden  the  hearts  of 
the  bold  mountaineers,  but  its  echo,  whilst  resounding  from 
the  pinnacles  of  the  Blue  to  the  peaks  of  the  Black  mountain, 
will  enthusiastically  cheer  the  many  thousand  wayworn  trav- 
ellers whilst  performing,  not  a  pilgrimage  to  Mecca,  but  vis- 
its to  the  peaks  of  the  highest  mountains  east  of  the  Rocky 
Range. 

As  stated  in  a  preceding  part  of  this  report,  it  became  nec- 
essary to  locate  the  mountain  section  of  the  road,  at  least  as 
far  as  the  western  portal  of  the  Swanannoa  tunnel,  in  order 


1858-9.]  Document  No.  47.  17 

to  determine  the  western  terminus  of  the  second  section. — 
This  has  been  accomplished,  and  although  I  am  not  prepared 
to  present  you  an  exact  estimate  of  the  cost,  according  to  this 
location,  but  shall  be  in  a  few  days,  yet  this  I  am  prepared 
to  say,  that  there  will  be  8.4  miles  of  105  feet  grade  to  the 
mile,  there  will  be  six  tunnels,  the  aggregate  length  of  which 
will  be  2,525  feet,  the  longest,  or  the  tunnel  at  Swanannoa 
Gap  being  reduced  to  1,400  feet  only.  The  maps,  profiles 
and  tabular  statements  of  the  line  accompanying  this  report, 
which  has  been  gotten  up  with  great  care,  will  give  a  more 
definite  idea  of  the  country,  as  well  as  the  location  of  the 
road,  than  any  description  which,  I  could  make.  But  for  a 
more  particular  description  of  which  I  beg  leave  to  make  the 
following  extract  from  the  report  made  by  myself  on  the  8th 
December,  1856: 

"  By  reference  to  the  maps  and  profiles  of  the  line,  accom- 
panying this  report,  and  comparing  them  with  those  I  made 
two  years  ago,  it  will  appear  that  instead  of  13,360  feet  of 
tunnelling,  as  contemplated  by  that  line,  we  now  have  oi.iy 
4,240  feet,  making  a  difference  of  9,120  feet  of  subterranean 
road — a  great  reduction  in  this  important  item. 

By  inspection  and  a  further  comparison  of  the  profiles,  it 
will  also  appear,  to  even  a  casual  observer,  that  the  mountain 
sides,  traversed  by  this  line,  are  far  less  rugged,  presenting 
fewer  gorges,  and,  except  at  the  tunnels,  a  much  more  uni- 
form surface,  and  coinciding  more  nearly  with  the  grade  of 
105  feet  per  mile  than  did  the  grade  of  100  feet  per  mile  to 
the  former  line. 

I  must,  however,  in  view  of  all  the  facts,  be  permitted  to 
say,  that  I  have  observed  great  care  in  preparing  a  detailed 
estimate  of  the  cost  of  every  item  entering  into  the  calcula- 
tion of  the  cost  of  this  enterprise,  that  the  estimate  upon  this 
line  is  as  entirely  and  wholly  reliable,  as  the  estimate  of  the 
cost  of  the  former  line,  notwithstanding  there  is  the  enormous 
difference  of  ,$1,602,725  in  favor  of  this  line. 

Much  has  been  said  with  reference  to  the  passage  of  the 
Swanannoa  gap  by  railroad,  and  its  elevation   above  tide, 
compared  with  that  of  other  gaps;  and  by  reference  to  a  ta- 
2 


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ble  of  elevation  of  gaps  (herewith  submitted)  where  roads  have 
been  either  built  or  are  in  progress,  it  will  be  found  that  the 
Virginia  and  Tennessee  road  is  the  only  road  that  crosses  a 
higher  elevation  than  the  Swananr.oa  gap. 

The  Baltimore  and  Ohio  railroad,  extending  from  Cumber- 
land westward,  201  miles,  crosses  an  elevation  2,426  feet  above 
tide,  and  has  12  tunnels,  the  largest  of  which — Kingwood — 
is  4,100  feet  and  amounting,  in  the  aggregate,  to  10,520  feet. 

The  Eabun  Gap  or  Blue  Ridge  railroad  crosses  only  2,151 
feet  above  tide,  and  has  13  tunnels,  the  longest  of  which — 
Stump  House — is  5,862  feet,  but  having  an  aggregate  length 
of  13,810  feet  of  tunneling. 

Whilst,  by  this  survey,  the  Western  North-Carolina  rail- 
road crosses  an  elevation  of  2,659  feet  above  tide,  and  has 
only  six  tunnels,  the  longest  of  which  is  Swanannoa,  2,500 
feet,  and  has  an  aggregate  length  of  only  4,240  feet. 

Thus  it  will  appear,  that  the  highest  gap  neither  requires 
the  steepest  grades  nor  the  longest  tunnels  to  pass  them  with 
a  railroad,  but  that  more  depends  upon  the  relative  elevation 
of  the  approaches  to  the  gaps  than  to  the  gaps  themselves. 

The  total  amount  of  tunneling  is  only  4,240  feet,  or  four- 
fifths  of  a  mile,  divided  into  six  tunnels,  the  longest  of  which 
is  2,500  feet,  the  whole  within  a  distance  of  4  1-6  miles,  and 
requiring  an  excavation  of  64,500  cubic  yards  for  a  single 
track.  The  total  length  of  maximum  grade  is  8  miles  2,560 
feet,  and  all  on  the  mountain  section.  Lest  objections  should 
be  raised  either  to  our  maximum  grade  or  minimum  curva- 
ture, I  will  state  in  advance  that  the  experience  of  other 
"first  class  roads"  justifies  it.  On  the  Rabun  Gap  road  we 
find  a  grade  of  70  feet  per  mile,  and  a  minimum  curvature  of 
574  feet  radius. 

On  some  of  the  principal  lines  in  Pennsylvania  we  find  95 
feet  grades,  and  in  Virginia  105  feet  grades,  whilst  on  the 
Baltimore  and  Ohio  railroad  the  grade  is  116  feet  per  mile, 
and  the  minimum  curvature  is  9°  30'.  This  grade  and  curv- 
ature has  been  adopted  by  Mr.  Latrobe,  one  of  the  most  dis- 
tinguished-railroad  engineers  in  this  country,  and  the  road  is 
now  in  successful  operation.     In  reference  to  this  subject,  I 


1858-9.]  Document  No.  47.  19 

find  in  the  27th  annual  report  of  the  Baltimore  and  Ohio  rail- 
road company — Mr.  Latrobe,  Chief  Engineer — the  following 
language : 

'  After  an  extensive  and  careful  system  of  instrumental 
surveys,  and  an  appeal  to  the  ablest  professional  counsel,  the 
route  previously  recommended  by  myself  was  adopted,  and 
the  road  has  been  built  upon  it.  It  involved  in  the  passage 
of  the  Alleghanies,  a  higher  grade  than  had  been  previously 
employed  upon  lines  of  general  traffic  ;  and  hence,  the  several 
questions  which  arose,  received  the  closest  scrutiny  of  the  en- 
gineers called  into  consultation,  and  whose  scientific  attain- 
ments and  matured  experience  were  assiduously  devoted  to 
the  solution. 

'  That  their  decision  was  right,  the  working  of  the  mountain 
grades  upon  the  road  has  satisfactorily  shown.  That  they 
required  some  increase  of  motive  power  was  known  and  ad- 
mitted beforehand,  and  the  increased  demand  has  not  been 
greater  than  was  anticipated. 

'A  leading  objection  to  the  use  of  the  higher  grade,  its  sup- 
posed danger,  has  been  found  by  two  full  years  of  exprience 
to  be  entirely  groundless.  So  far  from  being  more  subject  to 
accident  than  other  more  level  sections  of  the  road,  they  have 
in  fact  been  less  so,  owing  clearly  to  the  greater  caution  ob- 
served upon  them.' 

Such  is  the  opinion  and  experience  of  Mr.  Latrobe,  in  re- 
gard to  the  higher  grade.  Now,  on  this  road,  we  have  a 
maximum  grade  of  105  feet,  or  11  less  than  that  on  the 
Baltimore  and  Ohio  road,  and  a  minimum  curvature  of  only 
26  feet  less  radius,  and  this,  too,  in  the  direction  from  East  to 
West,  and  confined  to  the  mountain  portion  of  the  line,  where 
suitable  motive  power  specially  adapted  may  be  advantage- 
ously employed." 

Instead  of  a  tunnel  at  Swanannoa  gap,  of  2,500  feet  in 
length,  it  has  been  reduced  to  1,400  feet  only,  and  instead  of 
having  an  aggregate  length  of  tunnels  of  4,240  feet,  we  have 
reduced  its  length  1,715  feet,  having  now  in  all  only  2,525 
feet  of  subterranean  road,  and  for  the  want  of  time — not  bav- 
ins an  exact  estimate  of  the  cost  of  the  mountain  section  made 


20  Document  No.  47.  [Session 

— it  is  no  unfair  inference  to  assume  that  its  cost  will  be 
greatly  reduced.  I  am  not  unconscious  of  the  fact  that  the 
cost  of  this  mountain  section  has  been  held  up  as  the  terrible 
bugbear  which  it  would  be  almost  impossible  to  overcome, 
yet  I  am  not  unmindful  of  another  fact  that  there  is  intelli- 
gence enough  in  the  country  to  come  to  a  very  different  con- 
clusion when  the  facts  are  placed  before  them. 

I  must  beg  leave  to  draw  attention  to  another  fact,  that 
although  the  line  on  this  mountain  section  is  circuitous,  but 
made  so  with  special  reference  to  scaling  the  mountain,  yet 
the  stage  road  from  Salisbury  to  Ashville  is  (If)  one  and 
three-fourth  miles  longer  than  the  Railroad  line — conclusively 
showing  that  our  line  is  very  direct  between  those  two  points. 

By  reference  to  the  twenty-first  annual  report  of  the  Vir- 
ginia Central  Railroad  Company  it  will  be  found  that  the  cost 
of  the  whole  Blue  Ridge  Railroad,  extending  from  the  east- 
ern to  the  western  base  of  the  Blue  Ridge  mountain,  compris- 
ing seventeen  miles  of  track  and  three  tunnels,  besides  the 
main  one  at  Rock  Fish  Gap  of  4,270  feet,  has  been  completed 
for  about  $1,460,000. 

This  has  been  regarded  as  one  of  the  most  expensive  roads 
constructed  in  this  country.  The  same  report  also  informs  us 
that  the  three  other  tnnnels,  one  of  868^-  feet,  one  of  538  feet, 
and  a  third  of  100  feet,  added  to  the  length  of  the  fourth  of 
4,270  feet,,  making,  in  the  aggregate,  5,776-|  feet  of  tunneling, 
and  cost  $665,286  or  $115  per  linial  foot.  Add  to  this 
sum,  the  cost  of  sixteen  miles  of  mountain  road,  at  $48,000 
per  mile,  amounting  to  $776,000,  and  we  have  the  actual 
cost  of  the  Blue  Ridge  Railroad,  seventeen  miles  in  length. 

But,  now,  let  us  apply  the  same  prices  to  our  mountain 
road,  which  is  15.76  miles  in  extent,  but  of  which  sin  m:Ji  s 
alone  is  in  the  mountain,  the  other  9.76  miles  being  in  the 
valley  of  Mill  Creek  on  the  east,  and  Flat  Creek  on  the  west 
of  the  Gap,  and  which  will  not  cost  more  than  the  average 
cost  of  the  first  and  second  sections  of  the  Western  Xorth 
Carolina  Railroad,  and  we  have  the  following  estimate  : 


1858-'9.]                     Document  Fo.  47.  21 

For  six  tunnels,  whose  aggregate  length   is  2,525 

feet,  at  $115  per  foot,  $290,375 

For  15-|  miles  of  track,  at  $18,000  per  mile,  739,625 


Total  cost  according  to  Virginia  prices,  $1,030,000 

Estimated  cost  of   the  mountain  section  by   the 

former  survey,  1,320,017 


For  contingencies,  290,047 

From  the  western  portal  of  the  Swanannoa  tunnel  to  the 
French  Broad  River  there  has  been  no  location,  but  for  the 
purpose  of  an  estimate  of  the  whole  line  from  Salisbury  to  the 
French  Broad,  I  will  use  the  estimate  of  1851,  although  I 
have  good  reasons  to  believe  that  an  accurate  estimate  of  the 
located  line  will  rt-duce  the  cost  very  materially.  Then  we 
have  as  the  estimation  of  the  road  from  Salisbury  to  the  French 
Broad  River: 

From  Salisbury  to  Morganton,  75.65  miles,  $1,681,782 

From  Morganton  to  Mountain  Division,  33.52  miles,  833,767 
Froni  Mountain  Division  to  mouth  of  Flat   Creek, 

15.76  miles,  1,320,047 

From  the  mouth   of  Flat  Creek    to  French  Broad 

river,  13.00,  236,560 


Total  cost  for  graduation,  masonry,cross-ties,  iron,&c.,4,072,156 
For  equipment  for  137.9  miles,  384,121 


Total  cost  of  road  from  Salisbury  to  French  Broad,  $4,456,277 

The  Gre?nville  and  French  Broad  Railroad  Company,  after 
their  organization,  in  1857,  tendered  me  the  appointment  of 
Chief  Engineer  of  the  Company  which,  with  your  approba- 
tion, I  accepted,  and  soon  after  detailed  a  corps  of  engineers 
under  the  immediate  direction  of  J.  S.  Morrison,  as  Principal 
Assistant  Engineer,  charged  with  instructions  to  locate  the 
road  from  Paint  Rock,  at  the  Tennessee  line,  to  Asheville,  or 
the  Swanannoa  river.     During  the  winter  and  spring  of  1857 


22  Document  Isfo.  47.  [Session 

and  1858  they  were  engaged  in  that  very  laborious  and  fatigu- 
ing service.  The  result  of  their  labors,  it  affords  me  pleasure 
to  avail  myself  of  at  this  time,  for  the  purpose  of  making  up 
an  estimate  of  the  distance  and  cost  of  the  road  from  Salis- 
bury to  the  Tennessee  line,  at  Paint  Rock  on  the  French 
Broad  river. 

Estimate  of  the  cost  of  the  road  from  Salisbury  to  the  Ten- 
nessee line,  at  Paint  Pock : 

Total  cost  of  road  from  Salisbury  to  the   French 

Broad  River,  137.93  miles,  $4,456,277 

Total  cost  of  the  French  Broad   Road  from  Ashe- 

ville  to  Paint  Rock,  44.S  miles,  968.048 


$5,424,325 


By  reference  to  the  report  of  the  Chief  Engineer  of  the 
Baltimore  and  Ohio  Railroad  Company,  it  will  be  found  that 
they  have  expended  $7,576,051  for  the  construction  of  201 
miles  of  railroad  ;  and  the  reported  estimate  of  the  cost  of  the 
Blue  Ridge  Road,  of  195  miles,  is  $8,691,679,  whilst  the 
"Western  North  Carolina  Railroad,  and  its  extensions  to  the 
Tennessee  line,  at  Paint  Rock,  making  183  miles  in  length, 
will  cost  only  $5,424,325. 

If  it  be  the  interest  of  other  States  to  expend  these  large 
sums  of  money  to  place  them  in  direct  communication  with 
the  trade  of  the  west,  how  long  will  North  Carolina  hesitate 
to  push  forward  this  great  State  work,  which  is  destined  not 
only  to  develope  the  great  resources  of  her  own  west,  but  to 
place  her  own  works,  already  completed,  on  a  substantial  and 
paying  basis  ? 

I  have  the  honor  to  be,  very  respectfully, 

Tour  obedient  servant, 

JAMES  C.  TURNER, 
Chief  Engineer  of   Western  W.  C.  Railroad. 


1  85S-59.] 


Document  No.  47. 


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RIDGE  LINE. 

Estimate  of  Second  Section  of  the  Western  North  Carolina 
Railroad,  extending  from  Morgan-ton  to  Station  1770,  on 
Mill  Creek.     Distance — -33.52  miles. 


Graduation  and  Masonry, 

Ten  per  cent,  on  contingencies, 

Iron  chairs  and  spikes, 

Laving  of  superstructure, 

Sills, 

Engineering  and  Superintendence, 

Land  Damages, 


Proportion  of  the  equipment  for  35.5  miles  of  the 
road  including  warehouses  and  repair  shops, 


$  472,045  81 
47,20458 
228,166178 
17,330  00 
30,500  00 
33,520  00 
5,00000 


$  833,76747 

78,72443 

$  912.488,60 


26 


Document  No.  47. 


[Session 


RIVER  LLXE. 

Estimate  of  the  Second  Section  erf  the  Western  North  Carolina 
Railroad,  extending  from  Morgagnian  to  Station  1770  of 
Ridge  Line,  on  Mill  Creek.     Distance— -37 .31  miles. 


Graduation  and  Masonry, 

Ten  per  cent,  contingencies, 

Iron  chairs  and  spikes, 

La}Ting  of  superstructure, 

Sills, 

Engineering  and  superintendence, 

Land  Damages, 


$  415,801 
41,58o 
253,050 
19,220 
40,604 
37,310 
10,000 


$  817,565  64 
Proportion  of  the  equipment  of  37.31  miles  of  the 

road,  including  warehouses  and  repair  shops,  ij       87,479  00 


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Total  cost  of  Ridge  Line, 
Difference  in  favor  of  River  Line, 


$  905,044 
913,488 


64 
60 


1$       7,44396 


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Document  No.  47. 


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Document  No.  47. 
TABLE 


[Session 


Showing  the  Distances  and  Levels  above  Tide  of  all  the  Promi- 
nent Points  from  Salisbury  to  the  end  of  Second  Section. 


NAMES  OF  PLACES. 

s 

C    2 
a;  ,-  a> 

§5 

Intermediate 
distance  in 
miles. 

Elevation  of 
ground  in  i'^et. 

.2.2 

Salisbury, 

761.00 

760.00 

Statesville, 

25.32 

25.32 

940.00 

936.00 

Catawba  River, 

37.12 

11.80 

762.00 

810.02 

Newton, 

47.31 

10.19 

1021.00 

998.00 

Main  Ridge  at  Hale's, 

53.30 

5.99 

1194.00 

1179.00 

Morgan  ton, 

75.65 

22,35 

1140.00 

1135.00 

Rutherford  ton  Road, 

76.50 

0.85 

1180.00 

1123.50 

Big  Silver  Creek, 

78.05 

1.55 

1021.00 

1039.00 

Six  Mile  Post, 

81.75 

4.55 

1261.00 

1203.00 

O'Neil's  Branch, 

83.01 

1.26 

1111.00 

1155.00 

Ridge    between    O'Neil's 

Branch  &  Reedy  Creek, 

83.80 

0.79 

1244.00 

1170.24 

Reedy  Creek, 

84.56 

0.76 

1079.00 

1123.00 

Muddy  Creek, 

85.59 

1.03 

1076.50 

1104.00 

Shadrach's  Creek, 

87.14 

1.55 

1083.00 

1114.00 

Still  House  Gap, 

91.33 

4.19 

1356.00 

1302.00 

Thompson's  Fork  of  Muddy 

Creek, 

92.15, 

0.82 

1202.00 

1257.00 

Ridge  between  Thompson's 

Fork  and  Murphy's  Mill 

Creek, 

93.79 

1.64 

1393.50 

1360.00 

Murphy's  Mill  Creek, 

94.41 

0.62 

1303.00 

1357.00 

Marion, 

96.21 

1.80 

1430.00 

1405.00 

Burnt  Cabin  Gap, 

97.25 

1.04 

1499.00 

1435.00 

Big  Nick's  Creek, 

98.80 

1.55 

1305.00 

1342.00 

Ridge  between  Nick's  Creek 

and  Catawba  River, 

99.60 

0.80 

1432.00 

1365.65 

Catawba  River, 

102,69 

3.09 

1295.00 

1316.00 

Ridge  between  Cain  Creek 

and  Newberry  Fork, 

105.60 

2.91 

1508.00 

1451.00 

Newberry  Fork, 

106.34 

0.74 

1390.00 

1409.50 

Old  Fort; 

107-95 

1.61 

1450.00 

1450.00 

End  of  Second  Section, 

109.03 

I    1.08 

1499.00 

1498.00 

1S5S-9. 


Document  No.  41 


29 


ABSTRACT— No.  1. 


MISCELLANEOUS  ACCOUNT, 


1856. 

j 

No. 

Nov. 

IT.  C.  Simon  ton,  Expenses  to  Ral-| 

eigh  after  copy  of  charter, 

9 

$  13 

50 

J.  I.  Shaver,  copy  of     do., 

| 

6 

00 

1S5T. 

Wm.  Murphy,  use  of  Hall  at  Meet 

ing  of  Stockholders, 

136: 

10 

90 

1857. 

J.  C.  Turner,  road  crossing 

5 

00 

do.,  repairing  cement  barrels, 

238 

3 

90 

W.  R.  Myers,  Registering   deeds, 

236' 

90 

Norris  &  Bro  ,  car  locks,  etc., 

302 

10 

75 

Henderson  Sherrill,  side  stakes, 

304 

27 

08 

Adams'  Express  agent,  bonds  to 

New  York, 

12 

50 

H.  M.  Ay  re,  stationery, 

2 

25 

B.  B.  Lundy,  hauling  paints, 

9 

15 

J.  S.  Myers,  registering  deeds, 

1 

50 

0.  Gillespie  &  Co.,  office  furniture. 

304 

9 

94 

A.  R.  Simonton,  hauling, 

7 

30 

J.  W.  Cochran,  book  case, 

6 

00 

D.  Heartt,  advertising, 

1 

50 

1858. 

Adams'  Express,  on  bonds  to  1ST.  Y. 
Total, 

12 

50 

I 

$         132 

6S 

30 


Document  No.  47. 


ABSTRACT— No.  2. 


FEINTING   ACCOUNT. 


No.       ! 

1856. 

Camion  &  Collins- 

-Printing, 

12| 

$          71 

50 

a 

S.  W.  James, 

u 

150 

00 

u 

JT.  D.  ITin email, 

u 

134! 

6 

25 

1857. 

S.  "W.  James, 

u 

241  i 

19 

50 

u 

ITolden  &  Wilson, 

u 

301 1 

37 

37 

1858. 

E.  B.  Drake, 

Total, 

451! 

21 

75 

$306 

37 

ABSTRACT— No.  3. 


STATIONERY    AND   OEFICE. 


Total, 


'No. 

1856. 

Horsford  &  Co. — Books  and 

! 

Stationery, 

16 

$  90 

81 

1857. 

R.  F.  Simonton — Books  and 

Stationery,                               # 

25 

*    11 

68 

u 

Thos.  J.  Pond— 1  Desk, 

15 

00 

a 

Hayes  &  Zell, 

135 

17 

75 

u 

Herring  &  Co. — 1  Safe  forTreas. 

125 

00 

1858. 

J.  W.  Cochran— 1  Table, 

6 

00 

u 

J.  C.  Turner,  Ohf.  Engr. — 1  Sate, 

143 

40 

u 

J.  F.  Alexander  &  Co. — 

Stationery, 

I 

20 

75 

$430 


40 


18S5-'9.] 


Document  No.  47. 


31 


ABSTRACT— NO.  4. 


MILEAGE    ACCOUNT. 


1855. 

Oct. 

Dee. 

1856. 

Jan . 

Mc'li 

May 

July 

Aug;. 

Nov. 

1857. 

Feb. 

April 

July 

Aug. 

Dec. 

1858. 

March 

June 

Aug. 

Oct. 


Direc 


[No. 

etors, 

1    72 

00 

u 

12 

49 

60 

" 

15 

41 

90 

17 

77 

SO 

20 

32 

50 

23 

60 

90 

26 

59 

30 

49 

76 

90 

71 

20 

75 

108 

42 

70 

176 

31 

60 

177 

63 

20 

231 

29 

10 

304 

13 

00 

372 

29 

00 

452 

75 

60 

480 

58 

20 

Total, 

$842 

05 

Document  No.  47. 


[Session 
ARSTRACT 


James  C.  Turner,  Chief  Engineer, 


To  cash  from  otli  Oct.,  1855,  to  1st  July,  185G, 
M     «         -      1st  July,  1850,  "    "       ?■«       1857, 

<j  "    "  -      "   1858,  "  "  Dec,  1858, 


12,000 
13,700 
14,907 

1,825 


Total  receipts,         |$   42,43295 


00 
00 
95 

00 


1858-9.]  Document  No.  47.  33 

No.  5. 

In  account  with  the  Western  N.  C.  Railroad  Company. 


By  Negro  hire  from  1st  Oct.,  1855, 

1 

to  1st  July,  1856, 

$        821 

57 

By  Negro  hire  from  1st  July,  1856, 

to  1st  July,  1857, 

1,089 

54 

By  Negro  hire  from  1st  July,  1857, 

to  1st  July,  1858, 

699 

77 

For  items,  see  abstract  marked  A. 

$     2,610 

88 

By  Salaries  from  5th  Oct.,  1855,  to 

'1st  July,  1856, 

8,146 

06 

By  Salaries  from  1st  July  1856,   to 

1st  July,  1857, 

9,854 

18 

By  Salaries  from  1st  July,   1857  to 

1st  July,  1858, 

12,390 

00 

For  items,  see  abstract  marked  B. 

30,390 

24 

By  Camp   supplies   from    5th  Oct., 

'1855,  to  1st  July,  1856 

2,069 

90 

By  Camp  supplies  from   1st   July, 

1856,  to  1st  July,  1857, 

518 

49 

By   Camp  supplies  from  1st  July, 

'1857,  to  1st  July,  1858, 

500 

14 

For  items,  see  abstract  marked  C. 

3,176 

53 

By  Sundry  accounts  from  5th  Oct., 

1855,  to  1st  July,  1856, 

1,996 

49 

By  Sundry  accounts  from  1st   July, 

1856,  to  1st  July,  1857, 

2,753 

48 

By  Sundry  accounts  from  1st  July, 

'1857,  to  1st  July,   1858 

455 

60 

For  items,  see  abstract  marked  D. 

5,205 

57 

Total  amount  of  disbursements, 

$   41,383 

22 

To  balance  in  hands, 

1,049 

i 

73 

; 

$    42,432 

95 

34  Document  No.  47. 

ABSTRACT  A. 

From  1st  July,  1857,  to  30th  June,  1858. 


[Session 


No. 

33 

W.  C.  Erwin, 

Negro  Hire, 

$ 

42 

67 

34 

I.  T.  Avery, 

26 

50 

36 

R.  C.  Pearson, 

120 

60 

41 

H.  W.  Roberson, 

17 

50 

59 

W.  F.  McKesson, 

'< 

42 

50 

18 

R.  0.  Pearson, 

15000 

20 

A.  Gr.  Cartel-, 

150 

00 

21 

D.  A.  Davis, 

150 

00 

$ 

699 

77 

From  1st  July,  1856,  to  1st  July,  1857. 


No. 

1 

R.  C.  Pearson, 

Negro  Hire, 

$        331 

63 

2 

A.  G.  Carter, 

151 

38 

3 

D.  A.  Davis, 

150 

00 

4 

Nathaniel  Boyden, 

181 

20 

5 

R.  C.  Pearson, 

6 

50 

6 

Wm.  F.  McKesson, 

5 

00 

7 

James  Sears, 

10 

50 

8 

John  Logan, 

10 

00 

9 

E.  J.  Erwin, 

18 

83 

10 

R.  C.  Pearson, 

192 

00 

11 

Wm.  F.  McKesson, 

32 
$      1,089 

50 
o4 

1858-9.]  Document  No.  47. 

ABSTRACT  A.— (Continued.) 
To  July  1856. 


35 


No. 

i 

1 

D.  A.  Davis, 

Negro  Hire, 

$          2977 

2 

W.  C.  Erwin, 

30 

00 

3 

T.  G.  Walton, 

12 

00 

4 

M.  Wilson, 

10 

00 

5 

W.  Howard, 

24 

00 

6 

J.  W.  McElrath, 

22 

00 

7 

J.  H.  Wilson, 

24 

75 

8 

J.  H.  Wilson, 

44 

40 

9 

W.  M.  D.  Howard, 

35 

50 

10 

D.  Wood, 

6 

25 

11 

J.  F.  Avery, 

45 

00 

12 

R.  C.  Pearson, 

21 

50 

13 

W.  C.  Erwin, 

97 

33 

14 

A.  G.  Carter, 

120 

00 

15 

R.  C.  McAlla, 

103 

80 

16 

J.  I.  Shaver, 

115 

50 

17 

a 

50 

00 

18 

D.  A.  Davis, 

29 

77 

19 

$        821 

57 

36 


Document  No.  47. 


[Session 


ABSTRACT.— B. 

Engineering. — To  1st  July,  1856. 


NO. 


1 

2 

3 

4 

5 

6 

7 

8 

D 
10 
11 
12 
13 
14 
15 
16 
17 
18 
19 
•20 

21 
■M 

23 
•24 

25 

26 

27 
■28 

29 
;30 
,31 
,32 
;33 
M 


NAMES. 


J.  R.  GatHng, 
T.  J.  Armstrong, 
A.  S.  White, 
A.  H.  Guion, 
J.  R.  Gatling, 

A.  H.  Guion, 

J.  Calder  Turner, 

B.  S.  Long, 
A.  S.  White, 
R.  E.  Rodes, 
S.  S.  Kifldand, 
T.  Coleman, 

J.  W.  Wilson, 
J.  M.  Turner, 
D.  P.  Glass, 
J.  E".  Bradburn, 
G.  H.  Avery, 

J.  W.  Wilson, 
J.  M.  Turner, 
S.  S.  Kirkland, 
A.  S.  White, 
Tlios.  Coleman, 
J.  M-  Turner, 
0".  W.  Wilson, 
D.  P.  Glass, 
J.  M.  Bradburn, 
S.  S.  Kirkland, 
Thos.  .Coleman, 
J.  N.  Turner, 
J.  W.  Wilson, 
D.  P.  Glass, 
J.  if.  Bradshaw, 
R.  E.  Rode§, 


SALARIES. 


58 

31 
135 
135 

52 

120 

45 

108 

120 

120 

130 

120 

65 

61 

60 

42 

420 

375 

10 

25 

220 

124 

200 

121 

134 

12 

80 
115 
99 
75 
75 
50 
32 
569 


50 
33 
00 
00 
00 
00 
50 
33 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 

11 

00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
50 
50 
16 
16 
00 
66 
50 


1858-'9.]  Document  No.  47. 

ABSTRACT.— B.— [Continued.] 


37 


NO. 

1 

NAMES. 

SALARIES. 

36 

W.  S.  Long, 

$       n 

00 

37 

J.  S.  Morrison, 

33 

00 

38 

"W.  A.  Eleason, 

131 

00 

39 

T.  J.  Armstrong, 

52 

00 

40 

R  C.  M<#Llla3 

963 

00 

41 

A.  H.  Guion, 

158 

00 

42 

J.  R  Gatling, 

52 

00 

43 

B.  S.  Long, 

52 

00 

44 

J.  C.  Turner, 

52 

00 

45 

J.  S.  Morrison, 

20 

00 

46 

J.  S.  Morrison, 

150 

00 

47 

J.  C.  Turner,  Chief  Engineer, 

Total  Amount, 

2,216 

78 

$      8,146 

06 

38  Document  Ho.  47.  [Session 

ABSRACT.—B.— [Continued.] 

Engineering. — From  July  1st,  1856,  to  June  30,  1857. 


1 

2 
3 
4 
5 
6 
7 
8 
9 
10 
11 
12 
13 
14 
15 
16 
17 
18 
19 
20 
21 
22 
23 
24 
24 
26 
27 
28 
29 
30 
31 
32 
33 
34 
35 
36 
37 


T.  d.  Armstrong, 

A.  S.  White, 
S.  S.  Morrison, 

B.  S.  Long, 

J.  R.  Gatling, 
W.  A.  Eleason, 
J.  W.  Wilson, 
S.  S.  Morrison, 
S.  S.  Kirkland, 
S.  S.  Kirkland, 
W.  A.  Eleason, 
G.  H.  D.  Chinn, 
W.  Eaeder, 
G.  H.  D.  Chinn, 
W.  Raeder, 
G.  H.  D.  Chinn, 
S.  P.  Caldwell, 
S.  S.  Kirkland, 
T.  J.  Armstrong, 
G.  H.  D.  Chinn, 
Thos.  Coleman, 
R.  C.  Ale  Alia, 

A.  S.  White, 

J.  Calder  Turner, 

B.  S.  Long, 
J.  R.  Gatling, 
R.  C.  McAlla, 
T.  J.  Armstrong, 
W.  A.  Eleason, 
A.  S.  White, 

J.  S.  Morrison, 
D.  E.  Laird, 
D.  E.  Laird, 

A.  A.  Laurance, 
J.  R.  Gatling, 

J.  Calder  Turner, 

B.  S.  Long, 


15200 
120J0O 
25100 
5200 

52J00 
326;57 

60100 
465|44 
24500 


225 
500 
121 


00 
00 
69 


60  21 


83 
200 
166 

91 
225 

78 
158 


33 

00 
67 
00 
00 
00 
39 


7500 
45000 
150  00 


117 

65 

65 

675 

65 

37 

25 

4 

5 

9 

70 

150 

150 


00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
90 
40 
00 
25 
00 
00 
00 
00 


150  00 


1858-'9.]  Document  No.  47. 

ABSTRACT.— B.— [Continued.] 


39 


NAMES. 

NO. 

SA] 

LARIE8. 

38 

S.  P.  Caldwell, 

52 

00 

39 

E.  Frost, 

247 

00 

40 

D.  P.  Glass, 

59 

00 

41 

G.  H.  D.  Chinn, 

83 

33 

42 

R.  C.  McAlla, 

525 

00 

43 

T.  J.  Armstrong, 

91 

00 

$ 

6,854 

00 

J.  C.  Turner,  Chief  Engineer, 

Total  Amount, 

3,000 

00 

1 

9,854 

18 

40  Document  Ho.  47.  [Session 

ABSTRACT.— B.— [Continued.] 

Engineering. — From  1st  July,  1857,  to  30th  June,  1858. 


NO. 

NAMES. 

SALARIES. 

25 

M.  J.  Kincade,  Chairman, 

$         6\ee 

27 

W.  R.  Akin,            do., 

2000 

30 

]S[.  E.  Scales,  Topographer, 

7500 

40 

D.  P.  Glass,  Rodman, 

6400 

44 

IS".  E.  Scales,  Topographer^ 

13393 

47 

J.  W.  Wilson,  Salary, 

5525 

1 

N.  Mendenhall,  do.', 

200  00 

3 

W.  A.  Eleason,    do., 

33333 

4 

T.  J.  Armstrong,  Rodman, 

7800 

5 

S.  P.  Caldwell,  Salary, 

17700 

6 

S.  S.  Kirkland,     do., 

22500 

8 

S.  P.  Caldwell,     do., 

1500 

9 

S.  P.  Caldwell,     do., 

45 

00 

10 

J.  W.  Wilson,      do., 

214 

75 

12 

1ST.  Mendenhall,    do., 

821 

43 

13 

W.  Raeder,  Draughtsman, 

666 

66 

16 

W.  A.  Eleason,  Salary, 

66667 

17 

T.  J.  Armstrong,  do.,  Rodman, 

156|00 

19 

S.  S.  Kirkland,      do.,        do., 

450:00 

22 

F.  J.  Armstrong,  do.,        do., 

7800 

23 

W.  A.  Eleason,     do., 

250!00 

24 

do.,                 do., 

22000 

25 

S.  S.  Kirkland,       do., 

25o;oo 

26 

]ST.  Mendenhall,     do., 

295'00 

30 

N".  Mendenhall,     do., 

34^00 

31 

W.  Raeder,  Draughtsman, 

250;00 

33 

W.  Raeder,           do., 

25000 

35 

S.  S.  Kirkland,      do., 

4500 

36 

S.  S.  Kirkland,       do., 

25000 

37 

J.  W.  Wilson,        do., 

220|00 

40 

J.  Coleman,            do., 

12500 

41 

Thos.  Dwyer,          do., 

158:33 

R.  C.  McAlla,        do., 

2,25000 

J.  C.  Turner,         do., 

Total  Amount, 

3,000 

00 
00 

$   12,390 

1858-'9<] 


Document  No.  47. 


41 


ABSTRACT.— C. 

Engineering. — To  July,  1856. 


CAMP 

NO. 

NAMES. 

SUPPLIES. 

1 

John  Whitman, 

$           1221 

2 

Maigt  Lewis, 

125 

3 

John  Holsouser, 

11 

51 

4 

G.  Lambert, 

6 

49 

5 

F.  Watts, 

8 

77 

6 

H.  P.  Baridey, 

4 

50 

7 

A.  Rickert, 

8 

45 

8 

C.  W.  Deaton, 

3 

35 

9 

Thos.  A.  Burke, 

9 

39 

10 

John  Whitman, 

3 

62 

11 

J.  D.  Henley, 

4 

38 

12 

Peter  Josey, 

2 

45 

13 

J.  H.  McRorie, 

6 

30 

14 

George  Lambert, 

2 

62 

15 

T.  J.  Armstrong, 

56  62 

16 

J.  N.  Glasscock, 

36  00 

17 

J.  W.  Plember, 

3 

40 

18 

B.  Crawford, 

8 

00 

19 

T.  J.  Armstrong, 

25 

10 

20 

J.  A.  Whitman, 

6 

20 

21 

A.  S.  Brown, 

2 

50 

22 

W.  S.  McKay, 

12 

29 

23 

J.  A.  Whitman, 

6 

54 

24 

E.  Briggs, 

2 

65 

25 

Thos.  E.  Brown, 

11 

70 

26 

Sam'l  Lyerly, 

9 

80 

27 

A.  Trexler, 

1 

30 

28 

R.  Burroughs, 

50 

29 

Sam'l  Owens, 

1 

25 

30 

John  A.  Whitman, 

25 

00 

31 

Brown  <fe  Coffin, 

92 

75 

32 

John  Hyde, 

5 

00 

33 

Brown  &  Coffin, 

48 

34 

Thomas  Hyde, 

13 

65 

42 


Document  No.  47. 
ABSTRACT.— C— [Continued.] 


[Session 


CAMP 

NO. 

NAMES. 

SUPPLIES. 

35 

George  Rimer, 

$             120 

36 

George  Rimer, 

50 

37 

B.  Honeycutt, 

1 

38 

38 

T.  J.  Armstrong, 

42 

18 

39 

Scorleld  &  B., 

6 

25 

40 

G.  G.  Newton, 

7 

50 

41 

T.  J.  Armstrong, 

40 

00 

42 

A.  a  White, 

3 

20 

43 

Jenkins  &  Roberts, 

29 

19 

44 

J.  C.  Barkley, 

70 

45 

T.  J.  Armstrong, 

1 

50 

46 

J.  Calder  Turner, 

4 

42 

47 

T.  A.  Patterson, 

10 

00 

48 

Rosebro,  Carlton  &  Co., 

4 

50 

49 

Paul  Bost, 

63 

50 

0.  Gillespie  &  Co., 

12 

33 

51 

G.  Lambert, 

3 

00 

52 

E.  H.  Emmons, 

15 

45 

53 

J.  Sherrill, 

S9 

54 

Jacob  Bostian, 

3 

00 

55 

John  Holsouser, 

5 

95 

56 

M.  O.  Day, 

S6 

57 

Levi  Bost, 

4 

S6 

58 

J.  Parker, 

4 

00 

59 

J.  A.  Smith, 

6 

64 

60 

M.  Chunn, 

2 

70 

61 

D.  Waddell, 

36 

89 

62 

Murphy,  McRorie  &  Co., 

94 

19 

63 

Peter  Fruze, 

8  00 

64 

Rosebro,  Carlton  &  Co., 

10:93 

65 

0.  Gillespie  &  Co., 

300 

66 

0.  G.  Foard, 

4:00 

67 

Stockton  &  Morrison, 

2189 

68 

Scroggs  &  Walker, 

6!00 

69 

Setzer  &  Miller, 

1J20 

70 

Gaither  &  Brother, 

2'65 

71 

J.  Wilfong, 

|5|38 

72 

A.  Moore, 

5 

32 

1858-'9.]  Document  No.  47. 

ABSTRACT.— C— [Continued.] 


43 


M.  C.  Slmford, 
L.  A.  Slmford, 
John  Heritte, 
John  LIunsucker, 
G.  S.  Little, 
Logan  Smoyer, 
J.  P.|Helterbran, 
David  Wike, 
J.  Miller, 
G.  Carrell, 
Mrs.  Conley, 
Thomas  McGallard, 
S.  S.  Kirkland, 
George  Honpe, 
Samuel  Lowe, 
T.  Coleman, 
A.  C.  Jarrette, 
"William  McGallard, 
L.  Surry, 
P.  Mull, 
Jos.  Baker, 
Henry  Mull, 
D.  B.'  Gaither, 
Henry  Baker, 
A.  Myers  &  Co., 
Phil. 'Warlick, 
J.    Britton, 
Thad.  Coleman, 
R.  L.  Lail, 
William  Laurance, 
Thad.  Coleman, 
P.  Warlick, 
A.  Myers  &  Co., 
J.  M.  Happoldt, 
Henry  Baker, 
Gaither  &  Co., 
W.  C.  Erwin, 
M.  S.  Moore, 


CAMP 

SUPPLIES 

87 

3 

45 

5 

51 

7 

69 

1 

60 

3 

00 

7 

20 

4 

40 

4 

64 

5 

99 

2 

40 

2 

00 

2 

80 

90 

2 

60 

28 

55 

2 

80 

1 

75 

4 

12 

1 

40 

o 
O 

00 

1 

00 

22 

93 

7 

55 

38 

52 

5 

42 

34 

16 

17 

44 

3 

20 

12 

30 

11 

52 

35 

32 

50 

95 

11 

00 

4 

00 

3 

91 

1 

98 

3 

12 

u 


Document  No.  47. 

ABSTRACT.— C.— [Continued.] 


[Session 


111  L.  Terry, 

112  E.  J.  Erwin, 

113  J.C.Smith, 

114  Jonas  Bost, 

115  M.  Stillwell, 

116  A.  Abernathy, 

117  H.  Hartshoe, 

118  L.  Berry, 

119  Isaac  Huntley, 

120  George  Helterbrand, 

121  J.  W.  Wilson, 

122  Noah  Spagle, 

123  Martin  Spagle, 

124  Jos.  Brittain, 

125  Alexander  Yan  Horn, 

126  Henry  Lail, 

127  Jacob  Heart, 

128  Alexander  Yan  Horn, 

129  Frank  Warlick, 

130  Gaither  &  Co., 
131 Coleman, 

132  W.  A.  Eleason, 

133  Jonas  Bost, 

134  A.  Myers  &  Co., 

135  C.  S.  'Brown, 

136  Gal'n  J.  Kaid, 

137  D.  Wisenhunt, 

138  Sim.  Burger, 

139  Ab.  Cook, 

140  Gaither  &  Co., 

141  Peter  Rowe, 

142  Moses  Burger, 

143  David  Burger, 

144  William  Hale, 

145  W.  B.  Ogle, 

146  A.  Trasseur, 

147  George  I.  Caid, 

148  William  Erwin, 

149  Eph.  Rector, 


00 
50 
37 
25 
00 
60 
08 
91 
98 
00 
25 
70 
24 
19 
80 
88 
2  02 


1 

00 

1 

51 

3 

50 

20 

92 

1 

50 

1 

25 

7 

50 

10 

94 

5 

00 

2 

63 

7 

43 

1 

10 

2 

45 

10 

70 

1 

00 

1 

25 

9 

32 

1 

50 

1 

00 

3 

00 

1 

50 

1 

75 

185S-'9.]  Document  No.  47. 

ABSTRACT.— C.— [Continued.] 


45 


J.  1ST.  MeGallard, 

D.  P.  Johnson, 
Thomas  Walton, 
J.  C.  Smith, 
Phil.  Warlick, 
James  V.  Singleton, 
J.  McKesson, 
Caldwell  &  Brown, 
W.  S.  Moore, 

A.  Myers  &  Co., 
P.  C.  Pearson, 

E.  J.  Erwin, 
Thad.  Coleman, 
Posebro,  C.  &  Co., 
J.  M.  Lewis, 
Gaither  &  Co., 
Mills,  Moore  &  Co., 
E.  Myers, 

W.  L.  Mehaffy, 
N.  C.  Lorance, 
David  Smith, 
C.  M.  Lorance, 
J.  Longer  ier, 
Gaither  ife  Co., 
George  Smoyer, 
N.  C.  Ballinger, 
T.  J.  Armstrong, 
P.  C.  McAlla, 
Mills,  Moose  &  Co., 
A.  H.  Criss, 
S.  Stimpson, 
E.  Myers, 
Jos.  Setzer, 
Wilhelm  &  Moore, 
J.  M.  <te  J.  T.  Jones 
S.  C.  Davis, 
M.  Brown, 
P.  C.  Pearson, 

Total, 


i 
9 
5 
1 

2 

8 

23 

lo 

31 

4 

28 

17 


2 

3 

1 

4 

34 

5 

8 

65 

52 


50 
00 
94 
)0 
29 
()0 
00 
75 
50 
55 
S8 
07 
99 
40 
89 
93 
70 
50 
50 
50 
25 
41 
00 

3 
99 
46 
10 
96 

0 


1 
28 
28 

1 
19 
74 
10 
71 
227 


40 
79 
20 
00 
00 
21 
73 
61 
35 


$     2.06790 


46  Document  ISo.  47. 

ABSTRACT— C.— [Continued.] 

Engineering. — July  1856 ,  to  July  1857. 


[Session 


1 

CAMP 

]STo. 

NAMES. 

SUPPLIES. 

1 

J.  M.  McKesson, 

$             4 

25 

2 

T.  E.  Brown, 

1 

75 

3 

A.  M.  Walker, 

5 

50 

4 

Paul  Hunsucker, 

20 

00 

5 

H.  C.  Siraonton, 

8 

00 

6 

Schofield  &  Butler, 

13 

50 

7 

William  M.  Barber, 

17 

25 

8 

0.  Gillespie, 

3 

00 

9 

R.  C.  McAlla, 

15 

30 

10 

Murphy,  McRorie  &  Co., 

41 

11 

Baker  &  Owen, 

21 

27 

12 

H.  L.  Robards, 

19 

94 

13 

E.  Conner, 

16 

37 

14 

J.  C.  Knox, 

6 

20 

15 

L.  T.  Jones, 

5 

94 

16 

J.  R.  Potts, 

4 

62 

17 

William  Walker, 

3 

50 

18 

u               u 

60 

19 

George  Corpening, 

20 

00 

20 

Boj  William, 

5 

25 

21 

John  Rutherford, 

8 

95 

22 

Allen  Conley, 

16 

05 

23 

J.  C.  Dobson, 

35 

24 

James  C.  Waggoner, 

2 

00 

25 

J.  L.  Carson, 

12 

50 

26 

C.  A  Blackwelder, 

2  00 

27 

Thomas  M.  Hemphill, 

16 

02 

28 

Thomas  Kelly, 

5 

39 

29 

John  Kelly, 

6 

42 

30 

A.  Kelly, 

1 

25 

31 

J.  Biddicks, 

3 

18 

32 

L.  S.  York, 

2 

00 

33 

J.  M.  Happoldt, 

44 

48 

34 

R.   Allison, 

4 

00 

35 

L.  S.  York, 

50 

36 

R.  J.  Cook, 

22 

02 

185S-9.]  Document  No.  47. 

ABSTRACT— C— [Continued.] 


47 


No. 

.    1-       .. 

1 

NAMES. 

CAMP 
SUPPLIES. 

37 

H.  Kelly, 

$             4 

58 

38 

A.  Bergin, 

15 

41 

39 

Robert  Bergin, 

6 

00 

40 

A.  Bergin, 

2 

00 

41 

Dr.  J.  M.  Happoldt, 

8 

75 

42 

Jonas  Bost, 

50 

43 

A.  Walker, 

2 

00 

44 

Otho  Smith, 

9 

70 

45 

Soe  Fry, 

85 

46 

J.  C.  Whitson, 

3 

87 

47 

J.  Calder  Turner, 

17 

74 

48 

Brown  &  Coffin, 

22 

35 

49 

0.  Gillespie  &  Co., 

1 

70 

50 

J.  M.  Blair, 

20 

73 

51 

R.  C.  Pearson, 

36 

71 

52 

E.  Frost, 

29 

05 

53 

R.  C.  McAlla, 

47 

25 

54 

A.  Myers  <fc  Co., 

19 

91 

55 

E.  Frost, 

2 

63 

56 

H.  L.  Robards, 

5 

00 

57 

C.  S.  Brown, 

4 

00 

58 

A.  M.  Walker, 
Total, 

8 

00 

$        608 

49 

48  Document  No.  47.  [Session 

ABSTBACT—C.— [Continued.] 

Engineering. — From  July  1st,  1857,  to  June  30th,  1858. 


NO. 

TO  WHOM  PAID. 

FOR    WHAT 
EXPENDED. 

AMOUNT. 

1 

2 

J.  W.  Wilson, 
Thomas  J.  Armstrong, 

Camp 
a 

Supplies 

%       14 
1 

9C 

oc 

3 

D.  P.  Glass, 

a 

(C 

6C 

4 

D.  B.  &  J.  L.  G-aither, 

i'i 

it' 

14 

85 

5 

D.  Chinn, 

a 

a 

6f 

G 

E.  Deal, 

a 

" 

5 

7S 

7 

Moses  Harman, 

u 

W 

o 

2i> 

8 

P.  Hoffman, 

a 

a 

9 

06 

9 

Wlliara  Hale, 

a 

a 

1 

11 

10 

Daniel  Wishenhunt, 

u 

a 

8 

99 

11 

P.  Warlick, 

a 

a 

32 

55 

12 

W.  B.  Ogle, 

a 

u 

3 

00 

13 
14 

Henry  Laigle, 
J.  L.  Berry, 

u 
a 

a 

a 

9 

3 

75 
41 

15 

Martha  McGallard, 

a 

u 

3 

12 

16 

Wm.  McGallard, 

a 

a 

23 

47 

17 

W.  Icard, 

<* 

a 

4 

07 

18 

E.  P.  Glass, 

a 

a 

25 

33 

19 

J.  Harshaw, 

<< 

a 

20 

25 

20 

W.  R.  Aiken, 

a 

a 

2 

oo 

22 

Caldwell  &  Brown, 

a 

a 

1 

55 

23 

II.  Harman, 

u 

*< 

7 

50 

24 

II.  W.  Roberson, 

a 

a 

30 

00 

26 

J.  W.  Berry, 

a 

a 

1 

36 

28 

E.  C.  McAlla, 

a 

H 

29 

57 

29 

S.  P.  Caldwell, 

(i 

n 

36 

30 

32 

W.  C.  Erwin, 

cc 

a 

21 

06 

36 

R.  C.  Pearson, 

u 

a 

41 

50 

37 

Tate  &  Bettis, 

a 

a 

7 

92 

38 

J.  H.  Pearson, 

u 

u 

8 

47 

39 

W.  S.  Moore, 

a 

a 

1 

00 

45 

N.  E.  Scales, 

a 

a 

11 

00 

46 

T.  J.  Armstrong, 

a 

a 

8 

(JO 

50 

Cansler  &  Powell, 

a 

a 

5 

91 

51 

J.  W.  Woodward, 

a 

a 

11 

00 

52 

J.  C.  Fleming, 

(( 

i. 

4 

01 

1858-'9.]  Document  No.  47. 

ABSTRACT—  C.— [Continued.] 


49 


NO. 

TO  WHOM  PAID. 

FOK  WHAT   EX- 
PENDED. 

AMOUNT. 

53 

Stockton  &  Morrison, 

Camp  Supplies 

$ 

5 

75 

54 

A.  Green, 

cc              a 

28 

00 

55 

0.  Gillespie  &  Co., 

.  a             a 

11 

22 

56 

M.  Brown, 

cc              a 

4 

80 

57 

W.  C.  Erwin, 

|      cc 

2 

50 

58 

D.  B.  &  J.  L.  Gaither, 

a              a 

17 

61 

59 

W.  F.  McKesson, 

cc              cc 

18 

11 

60 

Eli  Bost, 

a             a 

1 

00 

2 

J.  D.  Hennessee, 

a              a 

2 

00 

Total, 

$ 

500 

14 

50 


Document  Xo.  47. 


[Session 


ABSTRACT.— D. 

Engineering. — To  1st  July,  185S. 


1 

2 

3 

4 

5 

6 

7 

8 

9 

10 

11 

12 

13 

14 

15 

16 

17 

18 

19 


James  Daugherty, 
Grant  &  Carlton, 
M.  A.  Agnue, 
W.  P.  Graham, 
Boss  Simonton, 
Jolin  Allison, 
O.  G.  Foard, 
J.  S.  Morrison, 
J.  A.  Boyden, 
W.  B.  Grant, 
John  Griffith, 
J.  W.  Wilson, 
Thos.  E.  Brown, 
Wm.  A.  Perkins, 
J.  I.  Shaver, 
J.  F.  Foard, 
S.  W.  James, 
N.  O.  R.  E., 
John  Jones, 


Sundries, 


Mules, 

do., 
Tents,  &c, 

do., 
"Wagon, 
Mules, 
Wagon,  (fee, 
Instruments, 
Wagon, 

Express  Freight, 
Instruments, 


25 
25 


20  53 
17  25 


4  50 

5  48 
2  65 
5  35 

365  00 
300  00 
138 


78 


15 

95 

130 

00 

400 

00 

146 

00 

237 

50 

75 

00 

4 

00 

120  00 


||  1,996  49 


1858-'9.]  Document  Fo.  47. 

ABSTRACTED.— [Continued.] 
Engineering. — 1st  July  1856,  to  July,  1857, 


51 


o 

1 

2 

3 

4 

5 

6 

7 

8 

9 

10 

11 

12 

13 

14 

15 

16 

17 

18 

19 

20 

21 

22 

23 


NAMES. 


A.  S.  White, 
J.  S.  Morrison, 
J.  W.  Wilson, 
J.  S.  Morrison, 
S.  S.  Kirldand, 
Jacob  Rowe, 
W.  A.  Eleason, 
Holly  &  Co., 
J  as.  Hufty, 
W.  Raider, 
J.  W.  Ellis. 
C.  II.  D.  Chinn, 
W.  L.  Pomeroy, 
John  Walton, 
Do.       do., 
R.  C.  McAlla, 
G.  M.  &  A.  T.  Jones, 
Wilhelra  &  Moore, 
J.  H.  Enniss, 
Murphy  &  Co., 
E.  Myres, 
Sill  &  Sill, 
Plank  Road  Co., 


ARTICLES. 


AMOUNT. 


Miscellaneous, 


Office  Rent, 
Board  of  negroes, 
Sundries, 
Boring  Line, 

Do.       do., 
Office  Expenses, 

Do.         do., 

Do.         do., 
Stationery, 
Office, 

Do., 

Do., 
Toll, 


Lime  and  Cement  paid  by  Chief  Engineer  and 
charged  to  his  Engineering  account, 


Amount  paid  for  Mule  to  J.  Lyrely, 


$      13 

52 

19 

83 

37 

15 

74 

72 

45 

63 

90 

80 

9 

45 

8 

00 

9 

25 

6 

73 

200 

00 

114 

90 

10 

33 

607 

98 

147 

75 

3 

50 

9 

45 

54 

60 

18 

08 

11 

00 

11 

98 

40 

6 

23 

$1,511  28 

1,117  20 

$2,628  48 

125 

00 

$2,753  48 

52  Document  No.  47.  [Session 

ABSTRACT.— D.— [Continued.  ] 

Engineering. — From  1st  July  to  30th  June,  185S. 


Qf 

NAMES. 

ARTICLES. 

AMOUNT. 

* 

21 

John  Walton, 

Boring  Line, 

'$         5  00 

31 

J.  A.  Weirman, 

Postage, 

1  08 

42 

John  Walton, 

Boring  Line, 

83  50 

48 

J.  S.  Brown, 

Repairi'g  Wagon, 

3  25 

49 

Franklin  Davis, 

River  Ferriage, 

2  80 

C.  S.  Brown, 

Stage  Fare, 

7  00 

11 

J.  W.  Wilson, 

Miscellaneous, 

56  00 

14 

W.  Raeder, 

Do., 

22  47 

15 

Wilhelm  &  Moore, 

Office  Expenses, 

31  35 

27 

K  Mendenhall, 

Board  of  Axem'n, 

67  00 

28 

Taylor  &  Morris, 

Stationery, 

8  00 

29 

1ST."  Mendenhall, 

Board  of  Axem'n, 

38  60 

32 

W.  Raeder, 

Office  Expenses, 

25  55 

34 

S.  S.  Kirkland, 

Board  of  Axem'n, 

87  00 

38 

C.  F.  Fisher, 

Stationery, 

5  50 

39 

Jas.  Hufty, 

Do., 

15  50 

$    455  60 

1858-'9.] 


Document  No.  47. 


53 


ABSTRACT— No  6. 


GRADING  ACCOUNT  FKOM  1ST  JULY,  1858,  TO  30tH  JDNE,  1857. 


1856. 

No. 

Oct. 

II.  Reynolds, 

Grading. 

37 

9     4,538 

00 

P.  B.  Chambers, 

do., 

38 

2,538 

31 

A.  R.  Simonton, 

do., 

39 

2,646 

00 

J.  Allison, 

do., 

40 

7,138 

89 

E.  Falls, 

do., 

42 

1 ,400 

00 

C.  F.  Fisher, 

do., 

35 

12,374 

00 

0.  G.  Foarcl, 

do., 

36 

2,501 

00 

J.  I.  Shaver, 

do., 

33 

12,179 

80 

A.  Ellis, 

do., 

34 

15,034 

50 

1857. 
Jan. 

W.  C.  Erwin, 

do., 

41 

200 

00 

J.  I.  Shaver, 

do., 

51 

1,381 

00 

P.  B.  Chambers, 

do., 

52 

650 

00 

A.  Ellis, 

do., 

55 

2,241 

00 

0.  G.  Foard, 

do., 

58 

866 

00 

BE.  Reynolds, 

do., 

59 

1,221 

00 

A.  R.  Simonton, 

do., 

53 

397 

00 

J.  Allison, 

do., 

57 

816 

00 

J.  K  McLelland, 

do., 

60 

360 

00 

C.  F.  Fisher, 

do., 

54 

1,780 

00 

W.  C.  Erwin, 

do., 

62 

1,200 

00 

L.  A.  Shuford, 

do., 

43 

840 

00 

do., 

do., 

61 

600 

00 

E.  Falls, 

do., 

56 

620 

00 

Feb. 

J.  I.  Shaver, 

do., 

72 

774 

64 

P.  B.  Chambers, 

do., 

73 

266 

80 

C.  F.  Fisher, 

do., 

75 

424 

44 

A.  Ellis, 

do., 

76 

1,500 

)0 

EL  Reynolds, 

do., 

78 

572 

90 

E.  Falls, 

do., 

79 

784 

80 

J.  N.  McLelland, 

do., 

80 

122 

)0 

A.  R.  Simonton, 

do., 

74 

240 

00 

Levi  Shuford, 

do., 

81 

440 

10 

W.  F.  McKesson, 

do., 

63 

1,000 

)0 

W.  C.  Erwin, 

do., 

82 

61«) 

30 

April. 

J.  I.  Shaver, 

do., 

93 

748 

32 

A.  Ellis, 

do., 

97 

1,666' 

52 

54  Document  No.  47.  [Session 

ABSTRACT.— No.  6.— [Continud.] 

GRADING  ACCOUNT  FEOM  1st  JULY,  1856,  TO  30'fH  JUNE,  1857. 


1857. 

No. 

April. 

C.  F.  Fisher, 

Grading. 

96 

$     1,787 

42 

A.  R.  Simonton, 

do., 

95 

722 

15 

J.  A.  McLelland, 

do., 

105 

556 

40 

W.  F.  McKesson, 

do., 

83 

1,610 

00 

do., 

do., 

106 

1,144 

75 

Levi  Shuford, 

do., 

101 

408 

62 

Wm.  C.  Erwin, 

do., 

102 

1,077 

28 

John  Allison, 

do., 

77 

164 

00 

P.  B.  Chambers, 

do., 

94 

598 

42 

J.  Allison, 

do., 

98 

613 

44 

E.  Falls, 

do., 

104 

228 

m 

Hugh  Reynolds, 

do., 

99 

1,085 

26 

June. 

A.  H.  Caldwell, 

do., 

115 

1,426 

00 

C.  F.  Fisher, 

do., 

114 

3,322 

00 

W.  C.  Erwin, 

do., 

119 

1,511 

06 

EL  Reynolds, 

do., 

116 

3,922 

00 

W  F.' McKesson, 

do., 

120 

2,960 

00 

P.  B.  Chambers, 

do., 

112 

2,211 

69 

A.  R.  Simonton, 

do., 

113 

3,300 

00 

J.   Allison, 

do., 

117 

2,460 

00 

J.  JS.  McLelland, 

do., 

118 

800 

00 

E.  Falls, 

do., 

121 

2,000 

00 

L.  A.  Shnford, 

do., 

122 

840 

00 

A.  Ellis, 

do., 

123 

5,960 

50 

$123,412 

87 

1858-'9.]  Document  No.  47.  55 

ABSTRACT— No.    6.— [Continued.] 

Grading  Account. — 1st  July,   1857,  to  30th  June,  1858. 


DA"  E. 

NAMES. 

GRADING. 

NO. 

AMOUNT. 

1857. 

J.  I.  IS  haver, 

Grading, 

141 

$       1 ,290135 

July, 

P.  B.  Chambers, 

do., 

142 

1,411 

20 

A.  IT.  Caldwell, 

do., 

144 

1,440 

00 

C.  F.  Fisher, 

do., 

145 

199 

(>4 

E.  Falls, 

do., 

149 

145 

00 

Wm.  C.  Erwin, 

do., 

150 

499 

37 

Wm.  F.  McKesson, 

do., 

151 

822 

.'0 

II.  Reynolds, 

do., 

148 

1,298 

33 

A.  Ellis, 

do., 

146 

1,413 

68 

E.  Falls, 

do., 

163 

1,034 

00 

Sept'r, 

J.  I.  Shaver, 

do., 

155 

852 

00 

a            u 

do., 

182 

1,048 

00 

A.  II.  Caldwell, 

do., 

158 

1,4X7 

00 

Charles  F.  Fisher, 

do., 

159 

588 

00 

A.  Ellis, 

do., 

160 

615 

00 

L.  A.  Shu  ford, 

do., 

165 

427 

00 

J.  N.  McLelland, 

do., 

164 

887 

00 

H.  Reynolds, 

do., 

162 

720 

00 

J.  Allison, 

do., 

147 

898 

00 

a           u 

do., 

161 

391 

00 

Wm.  C.  Erwin, 

do., 

166 

1,542 

64 

Nov'r, 

J.  I.  Shaver, 

do., 

185  \ 
_'43  1 

2,300 

00 

|L.  A.  Shu  ford, 

do., 

195 

535 

00 

E.  Conner, 

do., 

198 

245 

00 

E.  Falls, 

do., 

193 

875 

00 

A.  R.  Siinonton, 

do., 

143 

834 

62 

A.  Ellis, 

do., 

190 

3.462 

00 

Charles  F.  Fisher, 

do., 

189 

2,804 

00 

A.  IT.  Caldwell, 

do., 

18S 

1,535 

00 

J.  N.  McLelland, 

do , 

194 

376 

00 

P.  B.  Chambers, 

do., 

1S6 

2,151 

41 

u                  u 

do., 

156 

604 

00 

0.  G.  Foard, 

do., 

192 

152 

32 

A  R.  Simonton, 

do., 

157 

708 

00 

Nov'p, 

a                u 

do., 

187 

3,350 

54 

Kv.  F.  McKesson, 

do., 

167 

626 

00 

56 


Document  IsTo.  47.  [Session 

ABSTRACT— No.  6— [Continued.] 


DATE. 


Dec'r, 


1858, 
Mar., 


May, 


W.  F.  McKesson, 

E.  Falls, 

O.  G.  Foard, 

A.  H.  Caldwell, 

A.  Ellis, 

IT.  Reynolds, 

W.  C.'Erwin, 

EL  C.  Simonton, 
A.  H.  Caldwell, 
C.  F.  Fisher, 
J.  K  McLelland, 
L.  A.  Shnford, 
E.  Conner, 
J.  I.  Shaver, 
A.  Ellis, 

W.  F.  McKesson, 
J.  I.    Shaver, 
Charles  F.  Fisher, 
H.  C.  Simonton, 
John  Davidson, 
II.  Reynolds, 
T.  L  Lowe, 
W.  F.  McKesson, 
William  C.  Erwin, 
C.  M.  Avery, 
IT.  W.  Robinson, 
L.  A.  Shnford, 
E.  E.  Greenlee, 
John  Burgin, 
Fred.  K.  Smith, 
E.  Conner, 
T.  W.  Bradbnrn, 
William  Murdoch, 
J.  H.  Jenkins, 
W.  F.  McKesson, 
J.  I.    Shaver, 
EL   Reynolds, 

Total, 


GRADING. 

NO. 

Grading 

197 

do., 

221 

do., 

219 

do., 

216 

do., 

217 

do., 

220 

do., 

196 

do., 

224 

do., 

:  246 

do., 

i  247 

do., 

i  249 

do., 

i  222 

do., 

223 

do., 

230 

do., 

252 

do., 

250 

do., 

268 

do., 

225 

do., 

1  269 

do., 

271 

do., 

270 

do., 

299 

do., 

272 

do., 

297 

do., 

296 

do., 

277 

do., 

2S3 

do., 

287 

do., 

276 

do., 

284 

do., 

286 

do., 

226 

do., 

279 

do., 

285 

do., 

313 

do., 

314 

do., 

318 

do., 

340 

do., 

323 

AMOUNT. 


583 

3.300 
'903 
546 
240 

2,880 
1,111 
2,259 
2,068 

745 
1,380 
2,800 
2,400 

400 
2,236 
2,320 
8,233 
9,570 

655 

454 
4,521 
1,250 
1,300 
1,150 
1,637 

504 
3,640 
1,200 

572 
1,160 
1,12( 


88 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
35 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
39 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
50 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 


250100 


00 
00 
6G 
33 


200 

640 

51 

103 

l,259i55 
67500 

S7500 

$  190,28340 


1858-'9.]  Document  Fb.  47. 

ABSTRACT— No.  6.— [Continued.] 
Grading  Account. — 1st  July,  1858,  to  1st  Dec.  1S58. 


57 


DATE. 

NAMES. 

GRADING. 

NO. 

AMOUNT. 

1858. 

C.  M.  Avery, 

Grading, 

443 

$        2,400100 

Aug't. 

E.  Falls, 

do., 

429 

1,47000 

L.  A.  Shnford, 

do., 

431 

1,500  00 

J.  N.  McLelland, 

do., 

430 

600  00 

E.  E.  Greenlee, 

do., 

435 

998 

00 

Jos.  Bost, 

do., 

441 

30 

83 

J.  J.  Erwin, 

do., 

444 

900 

00 

W.  F.  McKesson, 

do., 

439 

1,500  00 

Do., 

do., 

433 

1,000 

00 

C.  F.  Fisher, 

do., 

427 

1,696 

00 

John  Rice, 

do., 

467 

50 

00 

0.  G.  Foard, 

do., 

425 

118 

53 

C.  Miller, 

do., 

472 

21 

00 

H.  Reynolds, 

do., 

424 

2,778 

07 

J.  Davidson, 

do., 

423 

2,725 

30 

Win.  Turner, 

do., 

442 

500 

00 

T.  W.  Bradburn, 

do., 

436 

424 

77 

Nov'r. 

John  Burgen, 

do., 

437 

1,050 

00 

John  Burgen, 

do., 

500 

1,401 

59 

T.  L.  Lowe, 

do., 

440 

1,300 

00 

Win.  C.  Erwin, 

do., 

432 

2,251 

00 

T.  L.  Lowe, 

do., 

440 

2,696 

95 

L.  A.  Shuford, 

do., 

510 

2,175 

00 

Wm.  C.  Erwin, 

do., 

509 

1,400 

00 

E.  E.  Greenlee, 

do., 

508 

2,600 

92 

J.  J.  Erwin, 

do., 

506 

1,200 

00 

Wm.  Turner, 

do., 

505 

310 

00 

Moses  Harman, 

do., 

503 

100 

00 

E.  Falls, 

do., 

511 

1,600 

00 

A.  R.  Siinonton, 

do., 

512 

1,630 

00 

J.  K  McLelland, 

do., 

504 

600 

$       39,027 
123,412 

00 

96 

S7 

Total, 

190,283 

L0 

$     352,723 

93 

58 


Document  No.  47. 


[Session 


ABSTRACT— No.  7. 

Masonry  to  the  1st  July  1857. 


DATE. 

NAMES. 

MASONRY. 

NO. 

AMOUNT 

Oct'r, 

ill.  C.  Simonton, 

Masonry, 

45 

$      2,353 

53 

u 

A.  H.  Caldwell, 

do., 

47 

6,708 

88 

u 

Win.  Murdoch, 

do., 

46 

6,105 

00 

Jan'y, 

(C                     u 

do., 

65 

5,000 

00 

u 

H.  C.  Simonton, 

do., 

66 

1,681 

00 

Feb'v, 

u      i<              a 

do., 

84 

1,892 

54 

a 

Wm.  Murdock, 

do., 

85 

1,572 

48 

April, 

BE.  C.  Simonton, 

do., 

103 

1.812 

76 

.i 

Wm.  Murdock, 

do., 

100 

5,794 

32 

a 

A.  II.  Caldwell, 

do., 

110 

1,013 

07 

June, 

a     u             u 

do., 

128 

1,042 

59 

a 

H.  C.  Simonton, 

do., 

129 

4,823 
$    39,799 

00 
17 

ABSTRACT— No.  7.  -[Continued.] 
Masonry,  1st  December,  1858. 


DATE. 

NAMES. 

MASONRY. 

NO. 

AMOUNT. 

Sept'r, 
»< 

Nov'r, 

D.  B.  Gaither, 

Robert  Hendry, 
A.  Ellis, 

Masonry, 
do., 
do., 
do., 

| 

422 
497 
428 
502 

$      3,117 

98 
5,950 
5,008 

17 
10 
66 

S3 

1 

$    14,175 

06 

1858-'9.1 


Document  No.  47. 


59 


ABSTRACT— No.    7.— [Continued.] 
Masonry  from   1st  July,  1857,  to  30th  June,  1858. 


DATE. 

i 

NAMES. 

MASONRY. 

NO. 

AMOUNT. 

July, 

¥m.  Murdoch, 

Masonry, 

152 

$         63785 

H.  C.  Simon  ton, 

do., 

153 

2,13040 

A.  H.  Caldwell, 

do., 

154 

31270 

Sept'r, 

ill.  C.  Sim  on  ton, 

do., 

180 

1 ,000100 

A.  Ellis. 

do., 

108 

1,94700 

C.  F.  Fisher, 

do., 

181 

1,000  00 

R.  Hendry, 

do., 

109 

512  00 

Nov'r, 

D.  B.  Gaither, 

.  do., 

102 

2,76000 

R.  Hendry, 

do., 

201 

1,80800 

A.  H.  Caldwell, 

do., 

234 

33070 

C.  F.  Fisher, 

do., 

200 

2,04000 

A.  Ellis, 

do., 

227 

2,72000 

1858, 

a      u 

do., 

199 

3,29000 

Jan'y, 

a      a 

do., 

251 

54700 

R.  Hendry, 

do., 

252 

1, 214|00 

H.  C.  Simonton, 

do., 

248 

5,333'00 

Mar., 

R.  Hendry, 

do., 

278 

70000 

H.  C.  Simonton, 

do., 

275 

1,94700 

D.  B.  Gaither, 

do., 

228 

2,590  00 

U                u 

do., 

2S0 

2,40000 

May, 

u              u 

do., 

331 

2,40000 

R.  Hendry, 

do., 

330 

2,28364 

A.  R.  Simonton, 

do., 

321 

1,776  00 

A.  Ellis, 

do., 

324 

2,683.00 

June, 

H.  C.  Simonton, 

do., 

362 

82321 

R.  Hendry, 

do., 

393 

9500 

W*.  F.  McKesson, 

do., 

364 

929;00 

A.  K.  Simonton, 

do., 

365 

1,015  00 

D.  B.  Gaither, 

do., 

366 

4,100  00 

A.  Ellis, 

Total, 

do, 

367 

2,88o'S4 
i 

$    54,20544 

54,20544 

l 

39,79917 

$108,179  67 

60 


Document  No.  47. 


[Session 


ABSTRACT— No. 

Iron  Account. 


DATE . 

NAMES. 

1 

IRON. 

NO. 

AMOUNT. 

1856. 

D.  D.  Simmons  &  Bro., 

Iron. 

|    pl,240J42 

J.  T.  Souther,  Agent, 

do., 

41,90499 

1857. 

Xorris  &  Bro.,      " 

do., 

183 

2,000  [00 

Morris,  Tanner  &  Co., 

do., 

407 

959185 

J.  T.  Souther,  Agent, 

do., 

414 

1.56697 

a                 u               u 

do., 

412 

8,61647 

a                  a               u 

do, 

415 

27,87130 

u                  a                « 

do., 

411 

19,57245 

S.  M.Wilson,       " 

do., 

413 

19,065J40 

J.  T.  Souther,       " 

do., 

529 

8,61 647 

t<               «                 u 

do., 

530 

29,30000 

Norris  ifc  Bro.,      " 

do., 

531 

1,00000 

S.M.Wilson,'       " 

do., 

528 

24,08478 

$  185,799 10 

This  account  includes  all  the  chains,  spikes,  &c. 


1858-'9. 


DOCUMENT    iSTo.    47. 


61 


ABSTRACT— jSto.  9. 


SILLS 


1857. 

I 

NO. 

•Tune. 

1  Wm.  S.  McKay, 

Sills, 

127 

$ 

2,000 

00 

!  0.  Gr.  Foard, 

u 

124 

1 

1,683 

00 

1  John  Davidson, 

u 

125 

1,260 

00 

1  W.  F.  McKesson, 

1 

;. 

126 

2,000 

00 

$ 

6,043 

00 

ABSTRACT,  NO  9.— [Continued.] 


ILLS 


1858. 

NO. 

Aug. 

Thomas  Hyde, 

Sills, 

446 

l| 

17 

00 

P.  B.  Chambers, 

u 

445 

400 

00 

W.  P.  Graham, 

a 

447 

14 

50 

O.  G.  Foard, 

u 

426 

688 

55 

E.  Beaver, 

a 

495 

102 

60 

C.  A.  Wilfong, 

u 

514 

75 

00 

John  Davidson, 

u 

513 

200 

00 

$ 

1,497 

7! 

62  Document  ISTo.  47.  [Session 

ABSTBACT  NO.  9— [Continued.] 

Sills,  from  July  1st,  1857,  to  Jane  30th,  1858. 


1857. 

| 

NO. 

Sept. 

O.G.Foard, 

Sills, 

172 

$         740 

00 

Samuel  Reeves,  Ex'r., 

t< 

173 

2,160 

(10 

Dec. 

PI.  C.  Simonton, 

" 

206 

923 

00 

John  Davidson, 

a 

215. 

1,260 

oo 

Win.  F.  McKesson, 

a 

242 

1,000 

00 

0.  G.  Foard, 

u 

213 

577 

00 

Samuel  Reeves,  Ex'r., 

« 

244 

1,640 

00 

1858. 

D.  B.  Wood, 

« 

214 

475 

00 

Jan'y. 

Samuel  Reeves,  Ex'r., 

cc 

256 

500 

(JO 

11               u 

" 

255 

58 

oo 

March 

0.  G.  Foard, 

u 

300 

1,650 

00 

D.  Waddell, 

a 

283 

1,210 

00 

U                  U 

" 

212 

500 

00 

II.  C.  Simonton, 

u 

281 

310 

00 

P.  B.  Chambers, 

a 

303 

666 

67 

Wm,  Turner, 

u 

288 

345 

00 

C.  A.  Wilibng, 

a 

295 

340 

00 

E.  Conner, 

a 

294 

200 

00 

Geo.   Setzer, 

a 

292 

180 

00 

D.  B.  Wood, 

u 

273 

241 

00 

Eli  Dial, 

u 

291 

320 

oo 

George  Smoyer, 

a 

290 

880 

00 

M  Spainhour, 

a 

289 

200 

00 

'  Joseph   Brittain, 

a 

293 

170 

00 

May, 

A.  Henderson, 

a 

341 

1 ,400 

00 

Sam'l.  Reeves,  Ex'r. 

u 

316 

10400 

0.  G.  Foard, 

" 

322 

95000 

John  Allison, 

a 

274 

2,00000 

June, 

0.  G.  Foard, 

u 

35S 

60000 

A.  Henderson, 

u 

359 

12500 

H.  C.  Simonton, 

u 

360 

320 

25 

$    22,04492 

22,04492 

6,94300 

$    30,4S5 

63 

185S-59.] 


Document  ISTo.  47, 


63 


ABSTRACT— No.  10. 


EIGHT  OF  WAY  AND    EEAL  ESTATE. 


1857. 
July, 


Sept., 
Jan'y. 

1858. 


J.  Q.  Leslie,  Right  way. 

David  Day,      " 

T.  Leslie,  Moving  house, 

W.  Clarke,  Right  way, 

M.  A.  Bnllin,  Lot  in  Sal- 
isbury, 

J.  I,  Shaver,  Lot  in  Sal- 
isbury, 

Misses  Howard,  Lot  in 
Salisbury, 

J.  I.  Shaver,  Lot  in  Sal- 
isbury, 

Lutheran  Church,  Rt.  of 
Way, 

A.    Henderson,   Lot  in 
Salisbury, 

O.  G.   Foard  &  Co., 

Plank  Road, 

J.  E.  Kerr,  C.  C.  C,  Rt. 
of  Way, 

W,  Murphy,  Rt.  of  way, 

S.  J.  Walton,    Moving- 
House, 

Wm.    Walker 
House, 

J.  E.  Kerr,  Clk.,  Right 
of  Way, 

J.  1.  Shaver,  Lot  in  Sal- 
isbury, 

Richwine  &    Harrison, 
Lot  in  Salisbury, 

E.  Biggs,  Rt.  of  Way, 

J .  Q.  Leslie,  Rt.  of  Way, 

Letitia    Brown,   Lot  in 
Salisbury, 

David   Simmons,  Mov 
ing  House, 


Moving 


NO. 

24 
31 
31 
30 

91 

86 
87 


109 

207 

245 

267 
266 

309 

305 

418 

354 

355 
356 
357 

476 

521 

Total  Amount, 


AMOUNT.) 

50  00 


90 
5(» 
85 

200 

1,300 

500 

200 

200 

1,000 

2,000 

471 
1,030 

165 

50 

416 

325 

925 
66 
10 

812 

15 


00 

00 
00 

00 

00 

00 

00 

00 

00 

00 

10 

00 

00 

00 

00 

00 

00 
00 
00 

50 

00 


$      9,990|90 


64 


Document  Xo.  47. 


[Session 


ABSTBACT.— TSo.  11 


LIME   AND    CEMENT. 


1856. 

[ 

No. 

July. 

jJ.C.  Turner,  Ch.  Eng., 

Cement, 

21 

$         500 

00 

Aug. 

do.              do., 

do., 

29 

500 

00 

Oct. 

Jonn  Boy  den, 

do., 

41 

325 

00 

1857. 

Jan. 

do., 

do., 

69 

620 

00 

Mar'li. 

R.  C.  Pearson, 

do., 

89 

500 

00 

1858. 

Sept. 

J.  M.  Smith, 

Lime, 

170 

78400 

Oct. 

do., 

do., 

209 

950100 

Mar'h. 

J.  W.  Thomas, 

Lime  house 

!  312 

2500 

May. 

J.  M.  Smith, 

Lime, 

i  328 

315 

00 

June. 

do., 

do., 

|  352 

378 

17 

Mills  &  Moose, 

do., 

i  353 

132 

71 

Sept. 

J.  M.  Smith, 

do., 

3 

329 

25 

J.  B.  Xolley, 

Cooping  bis 

:  469 

11 

94 

iG.  P.  Wyatt, 

do., 

u 

3 

75 

Oct. 

J.  M.  Smith, 

Lime, 

494 

26S424 

Nov. 

\W.  B.  Grant, 
l 

Li.  &  Ce., 

522 

974 

00 

$     6,617 

06 

1858-'9,] 


Document  No.  47. 


65 


ABSTRACT.— No.  12. 

CAK   AND    ENGINE. 


1857. 

NO.    1 

June. 

Bruse  Knuland, 

Catawba, 

$    8,783 

50 

Sept'r. 

L.  S.  Aldrich, 

Cars, 

174 

1,000 

00 

Oct'r. 

Do.,        do.. 

Do., 

205 

950 

00 

Oct'r, 

Rodgers,  L.  M.  W., 

Swannanoa, 

184 

8,659 

75 

Nov'r. 

Bruse  Knuland, 

Catawba, 

216 

800 

00 

Dec'r. 

L.  S.  Aldrich, 

Cars, 

240 

2,850 

00 

1858. 

Jan'y. 

L.  S.  Aldrich, 

Cars, 

265 

2,500 

00 

M'rch. 

S.  J.  Walton, 

Engine  Shed. 

315 

183 

54 

June. 

L.  S.  Aldrich, 

Cars, 

371 

853 

(JO 

Sept'r. 

Do..         do., 

Do., 

459 

500 

00 

Sept'r. 

Do.,         do., 

Do., 

475 

1,265 

10 

Oct'r. 

Do.,         do., 

Do., 

476 

.970 

00 

Nov'r. 

Win.  Cu minings, 

2  P.  Coaches, 
Total, 

527 

4,700 

00 

$34,014 

89 

ABSTRACT— No.  13. 


1857. 

FREIGHT. 

NO. 

AMOUNT. 

May. 

Wil.  &  Wei.  R.  R., 

132 

$ 

476  29 

June. 

N.  C.  R.  R., 

133 

12  18 

Sept, 

W.  &  R.  R.  Co., 

174 

2,000  00 

June. 

Wil.  &  Wei.  R.  R., 
Total, 

349 

222  25 

$ 

2,710  72 

66 


Document  No.  47. 


[Session 


ABSTRACT— No.  14. 


INTEREST   AND   DISCOUNT. 


1858. 
Au°\ 


Sept. 


Oct. 


Nov. 


May. 


Discount  on  5  Bonds  to  D.  A.  Davis, 
Discount  on  1  Bond,  <T.  D.  Lunly,  $500, 
Discount  on  1  Bond,  J.  D.  Brown, 
Discount  on  3  Bonds,  J.  F.  Alexander  <fc  Co. 
Discount  on  1  Bond,  E.  Falls, 
Discount  on  7  Bonds,  D.  A.  Davis, 
Discount  on  2  Bonds,  J.  I.  Shaver, 
Discount  on  1  Bond,  A.  M.  Powell,  $500, 
Discount  on  3  Bonds,  C.  F.  Fisher,  $3,000, 
Discount  on  2  Bonds,  A.  Ellis, 
Interest  Cape  Fear  Bank,  Bond  on  loan, 
Discount  on  1  Bond,  L.  S.  Aldrich, 
Discount  on  1  Bond,  D.  A.  Davis, 
Discount  on  3  Bonds,  D.  A.  Davis, 
Discount  on  6  Bonds,  J.  Ruffin, 
Discount  on  10  Bonds,  J".  T.  Souther, 
Discount  on  15  Bonds,  J.  T.  Souther, 
Discount  on  25  Bonds,  J.  T.  Souther, 
Discount  on  3  Bonds,  Sam'l  Tate, 
Interest  Bank  Republic, 

Do.  do., 

John  Holt,  for  Exchange, 
Bank  State  South-Carolina,  for  Exchange, 
D.  A.  Davis,  Cash  Bonds  sold, 
P.  Cowper,  Commission  and  Discount, 
Wm.  Murdock,  Discount  on  Bonds, 
R.  C.  Pearson,  President,  $54,000  Bonds, 


Do.  do., 

Do.  do., 

Do.  do., 

Norris  &  Bro., 

R.  C.  Pearson,  President, 

Do.  do., 

Do.  do., 


10,000  do., 
5,000     do., 

20,000  "do., 
2,000  do., 
2,000  ;•  do., 
3.000     do., 

10,000  _do., 


8  125  00 

ioJoo 

20J0O 

9000 

1500 

210100 

6o!oo 

15|00 
90J00 
60|00 
400 
30,00 
30100 
9000 
120  00 


602 


1.358 


50 
75 
12 


30  00 

63166 

137J98 

26;88 

26]75 

230100 

222:25 


Total, 


270 
3,367 

500 

531 
1,450 

159 

120 
91 

287  50 


00 
50 
00 
25 
00 
99 
00 


27812  85 


1858-9.]  Document  No.  47. 

ABSTRACT— No.  14.— [Continued.] 


67 


1857. 
July. 


JC.  F.  Fisher,      4  Bonds, 

J.  I.  Shaver,       1    do., 

IT.  Reynolds,      1    do., 

~W.  McKesson,  1    do., 

P.  B.  Chambers,  1    do., 

A.  Ellis,  1    do., 

L.  S.  Aldrich,      1    do., 

Sam.  Reeves,      1    do., 

D.  A.  Davis,       3    do., 

D.  A.  Davis,  Cashr.,  Int.  on  Loan, 

A.  Ellis,  2  Bonds, 

C.  F.  Fisher,       4   do., 

J.  I.  Shaver,       3    do., 

A.  Henderson,    2   do., 

W.  Williams,      1    do., 

R.  C.  Pearson,    2   do., 

iO.  Grillispie  &  Compaq,  1  Bond, 

Sam.  Reeves,      1  Bond, 

A.  R.  Simonton,  Int.  on  ad.  payments, 

Bank  State,  Int.  on  Loan, 

Rodgers  &  Co.,  9  Bonds, 

John  Allison,      6    do., 

J.  M.  Smith,       3    do., 

Edwin  Falls,       1    do., 

L.  A.  Shuford,    1    do., 

L  S.  Aldrich,     1    do., 

J.  "W".  Cochran,  1    do., 

J.  C.  Turner,  Chf.  Engr.,  Interest, 

A.  Ellis,  3  Bonds, 

H.  Reynolds,      1    do., 

W.  McKesson,  1   do., 

W.  McKesson,    1    do., 

A.  R.  Simonton,  1    do., 

J.  I.  Shaver,       2   do., 

Sam.  Reeves,      1    do,, 

C.  F.  Fisher,  6  do., 
Rob :  Hardey,  3  do., 
A.  Ellis,  3   do., 

D.  A.  Davis,  Cashr.,  clis.  on  bonds  sold, 
Cape  Fear  Bank,  Salisbury,  Int.  on  loan, 
J.  C.  Turner,       2  Bonds, 

D.  Coleman,        1  Bond, 


200 

50 

50 

50 

50 

50 

50 

50 

150 

20 

100 

200 

150 

50 

25 

100 

25 

50 

73 

153 

900 

300 

75 

25 

25 

50 

25 

200 

150 

50 

50 

50 

50 

100 

50 

300 

75 

150 

487 

26 

150 

25 


00 

00 

00 

00 

00 

00 

00 

00 

00 

oo 

00 

00 

00 

00 

00 

00 

00 

00 

56 

29 

00 

00 

00 

00 

00 

00 

00 

00 

00 

00 

00 

00 

00 

00 

00 

00 

00 

00 

50 

00 

00 

00 


68  Document  No.  47. 

ABSTRCT— No.  14.— [Continued.] 


[Session 


1857. 

Dec'r. 

Robert  Moore,    1  Bond, 

$            25 

00 

L.  S.  Aldricb,      3    do., 

150 

00 

S.  S.  Reeves,        1    do., 

50 

00 

P.  B.  Chambers,  2    do., 

100 

00 

A.  R.  Simonton,  1    do., 

50 

00 

R.  C.  Pearson,    5    do., 

187 

50 

Jan'y. 

George  Bowers,  4    do., 

400 

00 

Charles  Fisher,   4    do., 

200 

00 

A.Ellis,               4    do., 

200 

00 

L.  S.  Aldrich,      1    do., 

20 

00 

C.  P.  Fisher,       4    do., 

80 

00 

Mar. 

Interest  and  discount  on  $117,000  bonds, 

sold  in  New  York, 

13,750 

00 

April. 

Premium  on  check  on  N.  Y.,  J.  C.  T., 

19 

19 

T.  A.  Allison,      2  Bonds, 

40 

00 

J.  H.  Lindsey,     1    do., 

20 

00 

Brown  &  Coffin.  Interest  for  loan,  J.  C.  T. 

1 

50 

W.Horah,         '    1  Bond, 

50 

00 

J.  Murphy,           1    do., 

40 

00 

C.  F.  Fisher,        3    do. 

75 

00 

J.  I.  Shaver,         3    do., 

75 

00 

Adams'  Express,  on  bonds  to  N.  York, 

12 

50 

P.  Cowper,           1  Bond, 

50 

00 

1856. 

Nov. 

D.  W.  Courts,  P.  T.,  Interest  on  bonds, 

1,327 

33 

1857. 

Mar. 

J.  M.  Wilson,    Exchange, 

17 

40 

May, 

J.  W.  Stockton,  disct.  5  bonds, 

112 

50 

J.  M.  Wilson,       do.,   2    do., 

100:00 

Hugh  Reynolds,   do.,    1    do., 

5000 

June, 

D.  A.  Davs,  Cashier,  Interest  on  loan, 
Total  Amount, 

2 

50 

$       1,609 

73 

lS58-'9.] 


Document  No.  47 


09 


ABSTRACT— No.   15. 


DEPOTS  AND  STATIONS. 


1857. 

NO. 

$ 

Sept. 

Wilson  Williams,  Joint 

Depot,  Salis- 

bury, 

168 

901 

60 

J.  W.  Coclmal,  Depot, 

Statesville, 

204 

475 

00 

John  I.  Shaver,  Joint 

Depot.  Salis- 

bury, 

208 

950 

00 

Dec. 

W.  A.  Lyerly,         do. 

do., 

237 

13 

20 

Eli  Burnette,           do. 

do., 

233 

60 

75 

Daniel  Coleman,    do. 

do., 

253 

475 

00 

Feb. 

Rob't  Moore,           do. 

do. 

232 

475 

00 

Dan'l  Coleman,       do. 

do., 

253 

300 

00 

R.  Moore,               do. 

do. 

261 

52 

10 

J.  JE.  Yerble,         do. 

do. 

260 

168 

92 

J.  I.  Shaver,            do. 

do. 

259 

365 

00 

Wilson  Williams,   do. 

do. 

25S 

568 

46 

J.  W   Oochnal,  Depot, 

Statesville, 

229 

300 

00 

Baker  &  Owen,  Joint  Depot,  Salis- 

burv, 

257 

769 

16 

G.  M."&  A.  T.  Jones, 

Joint  Depot, 

Salisbury, 

264 

26 

00 

0.  S.  Henderson,    do. 

do. 

263 

156 

95 

Do.               do. 

do. 

262 

105 

45- 

E.  J.  Kirksey,  Dep't  at  Third  Creek, 

224 

100 

00 

J.  C.  Darr,  Joint  Depot,  Salisbury, 

311 

50 

84 

May. 

J.  W.  Cochnal,         do. 

Statesville, 

332 

870 

00 

E.  J.  Kirksey,          do. 

Third  Cr'k, 

347 

200 

00 

June. 

M.  L.  McKorch,      do. 

Newton, 

390 

950 

oo 

J.  I.  Shaver,  Joint  do. 

Salisbury, 

391 

1,948 

46 

D.  Coleman,             do. 

do. 

392 

102 

00 

Sullivan  &  Co.,         do. 

do. 

393 

50 

00 

Rob't  Moore,            do. 

do. 

394 

296 

42 

Glen  &  Burch,         do. 

do. 

395 

381 

32 

E.  Burnette,             do. 

do. 

396 

20 

00 

E.  Swink,                  do. 

do. 

397 

15 

00 

Pay  Roll,                   do. 

do. 

398 

487 

37 

E.  Spratt  &  Co.,       do. 

do., 

399 

82 

25 

Tunstal  &  Darr,       do. 

do. 

400 

525 

00 

!E.  J.  Kirksey,  Depot, 

Third  Creek, 

350 

300 

00 

70 


Document  No.  47.  [Session 

ABSTRACT— No.  15.— [Continued.] 


DEPOTS  AND  STATIONS. 


1857. 

NO. 

June. 

Henry  Hicks,  Depot,  State3ville, 

351 

$    .m 

75 

J.  W.  Cocheran',  do.     Statesville, 

401 

300 

00 

Aug. 

C.  F.  Fisher,  Salisbury, 

455 

89 

34 

J.  W.  Cocheran,  Statesville, 

448 

400 

op 

J.  D.  Brown  &  Co.,  Salisbury, 

454 

1,122 

34 

Wm.  Butcher,                do., 

498 

992 

86 

Sept. 

Rob't  Moore,                  do., 

460 

402  87 

J.  W.  Cocheran,   Statesville, 

448 

12414 

J.  A.  Hicks,                  do., 

449 

10150 

Murdoch  &  Co.,     Salisbury, 

450 

400  00 

J.  F.  Alexander  &  Co.,  Statesville, 

458 

15 

00 

John  Walton,                         do., 

456 

62 

74 

J.   I.  Chitty,   Pump,             do., 

489 

71 

25 

Murdoch  &  Co.,  Salisbury, 

466 

205  75 

John  Walton,             do., 

474 

10000 

Tunstal  &  Darr,         do., 

465 

1,44497 

John  I.  Shaver,  Brick,  Salisbury, 

'  491 

1,800100 

John  Walton,    Salisbury, 

490 

454  55 

Wm.  Turner,             do., 

483 

13 

00 

John  Steel,                do., 

■  524 

25 

00 

FI.  Swink  and  others,  Salisbury, 

j  471 

953 

89 

Oct. 

Henry  Hicks,  Painting,  3d  Creek, 

'  481 

39 

50 

J.  W.  Cocheran,  Statesville, 

;  482 

600 

00 

E.  J.  Kirksey,  Third  Creek, 

484 

250 

76 

John  Vuble,       Salisbury, 

131 

90 

Tunstal  &  Darr,         do.; 

486 

250 

00 

J.  H.  Greer,               do., 

487 

28 

62 

H.  S.  Swink,              do., 

488 

38 

75 

John  Steel,                 do., 

524 

165 

25 

W.  H.  Tunstal,          do., 

Total, 

523 

1,100  00 

'$  24,251 

98 

1858-'9.] 


Document  No.  47. 


ABSTRACT— No.    16. 


CONSTRUCTION. 


1858. 

No. 

Mar. 

C.  F.    Fisher, 
Love  &  Martin 

Track, 

1714  ibs.  Bacon 

298 

$      1,250 

00 

9£  cts., 

306 

167 

62 

do., 

Ex.  Baggage 

7 

14 

May. 

C.  F.  Fisher, 

Track,    " 

322 

2,750 

00 

John  Walton, 

Br'ge  overR.  R. 

344 

125 

00 

do., 

Well  in  Salis'ry, 

361 

100 

00 

Jas.  R  Crawford, 

Rock   lor    Well 

in  Salisbury, 

402 

40 

75 

J.  A.  Wisaman, 

727  lbs.  Waste, 

403 

28 

88 

John  Fisher, 

10  days  work, 

404 

13 

28 

John  Deadman, 

14  Bii.  Meal,  48 

405 

6 

72 

June. 

Wm.  Aldrich, 

Engine  Runner, 
Total, 

406 

50 

00 

$     4,539 

39 

]  858. 
Aug. 
Sep:. 


Oct. 


Nov. 


Document  No.  47.  [1858-'9. 

ABSTRACT— No.    16.—  [Continued.] 


construction  account. 


Pay  Roll, 

do., 
J.  S.  Morrison, 
do., 

do., 
Chas.  Huffman, 
F.  Clodi'elter, 

A.  Sullivan, 

Kesson  &  Keeler 
Pay  Roll, 
J.  S.  Morrison, 
C.  F.  Fisher, 
Pay  Roll, 

do., 

do., 

do., 
John  Holt, 
C.  F.  Fisher, 


No.  1, 
do.  2, 

Fr't.  on  Bridge, 
Bolts  fr'rn  Rich- 
mond, 
Expenses  to  do., 
2  st'mps  for  steel 
14,079  ft  lumber 

107  lbs.  Tobacco 
18  cents, 


No.  1. 

Bridge  Bolts 
Track, 
No.  2", 
do.  3, 
do.  4, 
do.  5, 
1  Clock 
Track, 


No. 


Constr'n, 
do. 
do. 
do. 


ABSTRACT.— No.  17. 

BRIDGE    SUPPLIES. 


14,443 


1858. 

NO. 

I 

June, 

S.  J.  Walton, 

Bridge  Builder, 

369 

$      450 

00 

T.  L.  Donalson, 

Bridge  Lumber, 

368 

486 

91 

B.  Trollinger, 

Do.,         do., 

370 

1,779 

00 

Aug'st 

S.  J.  Walton, 

Bridge  Builder, 

491* 

306 

00 

Do.,        do., 

Do.,        do., 

473 

1,217 

50 

Oct'r. 

T.  L.  Donalson, 

Bridge  Lumber, 

479 

100 

00 

Nov'r, 

S.J,  Walton, 

Bridge  Builder, 
Total, 

525 

200 

00 

$    4,539 

41 

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